A blog about me, my doings and everything I think deserves attention.
The short movie Elephants Dream was exclusively created with open source software. It’s available for free on the internet. The movie is done by the orange movie project. The old guy reminds of Agent Smith from the Matrix, especially the scene where Agent Smith describes the Matrix and its perfection. The old guy too describes how perfect the machine is. Big parts of the movie were created in blender.
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Blender 3D is a growing open source project and a very high quality piece of software. Blender is hard to learn in the beginning, you’ll find people saying that all over. But it’s worth it! Thats why you should use the numerous wikis, ebooks and tutorials found on the net. The active community sure will help you too. You can use Blender for all kinds of 3D purposes like animation, single frame rendering, simple illustration, vector based logos and much more. The possibility of python scripting is pretty popular too. The current version is 2.44 and licensed under the GPL.
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So you may ask yourself: What’s wrong with Vista? The site http://badvista.fsf.org will inform you about, why they think Vista and Microsoft are bad. I link this site because I think they give an easy to understand overview on problems of DRM and advantages of open source.
Cafe 1914 is a, 15 page long, comic done by Mei-ing Nieuwland aka ming85 on deviantART. Cafe 1914 is taking place in the same year and integrating historical facts. The two pretty cold-blooded main characters are developed very well. Significant for the story is the brilliant use of gestures and facial expressions. Enough of all the words, read it yourself, it’s a pleasure.
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The cover if the DVD caught my attention, because of the nice vector in the front. A Scanner Darkly is a masterpiece of animation. The main characters actor is Keanu Reeves which makes the movie more interesting than it is in the first place. The visual effects reminded me of the comic shooter XIII. The main character, Bob, lives his life in a world that is poisoned by total observation and a mysterious drug named substance D. The open ending of the story is partly directed to the audience. What are we believing and what do we want to believe?
In numbers: 6/6