[Bf-marketing] ED press release

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Thanks, the flow is definitely a lot better. A quote is OK to leave  
out, is a bit cheesy usually anyway! :)

Some notes though;

- I still prefer using the definition "Open Movie". It's not an open  
source movie... that sounds too much like software-only, whilst freeing  
up the creative data itself is at least as important. We also have  
'Open Movie' in our title sequence, and it is in all PR we did for the  
press until now.

- The text takes the emphasis a little bit away from Blender. Improving  
Blender remains the first target & goal of 'Orange', we didnt get much  
contributions or support from other projects, other than that we used  
their products. I don't mind to mellow the press release to have it in  
a broader context (validating open source for movies in general), but  
that was not what Orange was about.

- the Gnu Image Manipuation Program (GIMP)... do the gimpers really  
want that name to be spelled entirely? :)

Let me make version... mailing it soon!

-Ton-


On 22 Mar, 2006, at 20:01, Roland Hess wrote:

> I liked Tom's restructuring, and did a little of my own to his edits...
>
> One additional thing that I think would add to it: 'twould be nice to  
> include a quote in the paragraph that begins "The short film is unique  
> in its exclusive use" from someone on the Orange team about how an  
> open resource like this will help along fledgling animators, cure  
> spina bifada, etc. Probably shouldn't be Ton, though, as he's the  
> contact.
>
> **********************
> Elephants Dream, world premiere of the first 3D 'Open Source Movie'
>
> Contact:
> Ton Roosendal
> Director, Blender Foundation
> Phone:
> Fax:
> Email: ton at blender.org
>
> Mar. 22, 2005
> For Immediate Release
>
> Elephants Dream, world premiere of the first 3D 'Open Source' Movie
>
> (Blender Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands) - The 3D animated short  
> 'Elephants Dream' will premiere at cinema Kethelhuis in Amsterdam on  
> Friday, March 24th. The short is the culmination of Project Orange, an  
> 'open source movie' sponsored by the Blender Foundation and the  
> Netherlands Media Art Institute. The project was conceived to help  
> develop and establish the capabilities of open source tools such as  
> Blender 3D for the creation of cinema quality animation.
>
> The short film is unique in its exclusive use of Open Source tools for  
> animating, texturing, and rendering, as well as the release of the  
> movie and all of the files used in its creation under an open source  
> Creative Commons license.
>
> The film tells the story of Emo and Proog, two people with different  
> visions on the surreal world in which they live. Viewers are taken on  
> a journey through that world, full of strange mechanical birds,  
> stunning technological vistas and machinery that seems to have a life  
> of its own.
>
> 'Elephants Dream' features the voice talents of renowned Dutch movie  
> actors Tygo Gernandt and Cas Jansen, as well as an original score by  
> German composer Jan Morgenstern. The short brought together the  
> talents of a team of artists from countries as diverse as Syria,  
> Germany, Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands. In addition to the  
> performances of the cast and creative efforts of the lead artists,  
> Elephants Dream has had the assistance of hundreds of individuals  
> across the world who contributed a variety of work such as programming  
> additional functionality for Blender 3D, creating textures used in  
> some of the scenes, and providing international translations for the  
> upcoming DVD release.
>
> After the premiere of 'Elephants Dream', the movie and all of the  
> files used in its creation will be published under a 'Creative  
> Commons' license which will allow individuals the world over to learn  
> from, copy, edit, create, and even sell their own animations based on  
> the original data files used to create the movie. The tools used for  
> creating the movie, such as Blender 3D for model creation, animating,  
> rendering and compositing; the Gnu Image Manipuation Program (GIMP)  
> for texture map creation and editing; Python for scripting; and  
> Subversion for version management; are also available for free under  
> open source licenses.
>
> The files will be released on two DVDs with the movie in PAL, NTSC and  
> HD formats, a making-of  documentary, and all of the studio files. The  
> DVD is expected to ship in the first half of April 2006. Shortly  
> after, the movie and database of source material will be made  
> available for public download as well.
>
> Studio Orange team:
> Director: Bassam Kurdali (Syria /USA),
> Art Director: Andreas Goralczyk (Germany)
> Lead Artists: Matt Ebb (Australia), Bastian Salmela (Finland), Lee
> Cocks (Australia)
> Technical Director: Toni Alatalo (Finland)
>
> The team will present their work Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26, in  
> The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264. The movie will  
> be shown daily there between 13.00 and 18.00 for two weeks following  
> the premiere.
> For more information:
>
> http://orange.blender.org
> http://www.montevideo.nl
>
> Press inquiries can be sent to Ton Roosendaal, ton at blender.org
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