Blender Foundation announces open movie and game

[dexter11]

As a follow-up to the successful project Orange's "Elephants Dream", the Blender Foundation will initiate another open movie project. Again a small team of the best 3D artists and developers in the Blender community will be invited to come together to work in Amsterdam from October 2007 until April 2008 on completing a short 3D animation movie. The team members will get a great studio facility and housing in Amsterdam, all travel costs reimbursed, and a fee sufficient to cover all expenses during the period.

 

The creative concept of "Peach" will be completely different as for "Orange". This time it'll be funny and furry!

Peach open movie

 

Apricot, the Open Game project

 

As a second open project, the Blender Foundation and Crystal Space community are going to cooperate on organizing an Open Game. This will become possible thanks to the support by the NLGD Conference, the "Nederlandse Game Dagen", the annual conference for the Netherlands game industry.

 

This project will have as a main target to validate open source for creating professional quality 3d games, with Blender being used as creation and protyping tool and Crystal Space as engine and delivery platform.

 

An announcement with more details is being worked on still. Full project details will be presented and discussed during the Crystal Space conference, july 14-15th 2007.

 

www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Conference2007

Apricot open game

 

source: hup.hu

[Darkelve]

Thanks for that link Dex, really interesting!

[dexter11]

You're welcome.