Thread: Last chance to fund Tube, a free culture Blender-animated film!

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blender's open movie projects have proved it's possible produce stunningly high-quality 3d animated films exclusively using free software in studio setting. now, new animated short film called tube, inspired ancient epic poem of gilgamesh, expanding on work bring free culture masses. tube project not merely evidence of technical capabilities of free software tools blender, pitivi, , fedora gnu/linux, living proof of viability independent filmmakers. impressive aspect of project has managed come through distributed collaboration between 56 artists 22 countries — of @ war. tube highlights incredible unifying power of free software tools , free culture model.



within first few days, tube's kickstarter campaign reached minimal baseline goal of $22k , subsequently hit slashdot. film enters final stages of production, tube team needs support can make story huge success free software, free culture, , independent animators everywhere. production funding target of $50k in sight , couple days left in campaign, last chance support ambitious undertaking , name in film backer. there enormous potential here; mashable questions, 'will open-source animated film change movie industry forever?'

film's public release scheduled 7 months along assets, source, , project files under free culture , copyleft creative commons attribution-sharealike (cc-by-sa) licence. in-depth discussion team, check out interview tube project founders on libre graphics world. it's tube affirm legitimacy of producing free cultural works in free software workflow.

thank heads-up dpic!

want donate $50 or more name can immortalized on movie. however, have question.

1) have use real name when registering kickstarter?

2) see kickstarter ask link amazon.com account. so, tube opem movie projects acquiring name, amazon.com or kickstarter?

(i don't want write or register name in unnecessary places)


hope knows answer this.

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