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Big Buck Bunny

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:38:43 +0000

Big Buck Bunny is a follow-up to the successful “Elephants Dream” open movie project by the Blender Foundation. Again a small team (7) of the best 3D artists and developers in the Blender community were invited to work in Amsterdam from October 2007 to April 2008 on completing a short 3D animation movie. The team members were given studio facilities and housing in Amsterdam, all travel costs reimbursed, and a fee sufficient to cover all expenses during the period.

Elisa The Open Media Center

admin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:04:49 +0000

The Elisa Media Center has many advanced features that will make your media center experience unique. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

Watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online. View your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows. Manage your music collection by artists or album covers. Elisa automatically finds media from other computers on your local network.

Here are some of the current features:

* Watch pictures with previews and animated slideshows
* Watch movies and video clips
* Browse music collection by artists or albums covers
* Browse internet radio and picture websites

* Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop
* Audio visualization during playback

* Supports all media formats using Gstreamer multimedia framework, including H.264, MPEG 2, MPEG4, Quicktime, Windows Media, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Matroska. Commercially licensed plugins that work with GStreamer and Elisa are available from Fluendo.

And much more…

LotsaEscher

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:12:28 +0000

This is a screensaver which displays an animated version of M.C. Escher’s Print Gallery drawing. It is based on work done by Hendrik Lenstra and Bart de Smit.

LMMS

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:54:10 +0000

LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/sequencer-program and those of powerful synthesizers, samplers, effects etc. in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface.

Its main features include the following:

- Song-Editor for arranging the song creating beats and basslines using the Beat-/Bassline-Editor

- Easy-to-use piano-roll for editing patterns and melodies
instrument- and effect-plugins

- Support for hosting VST(i)- and LADSPA-plugins (instruments/effects)

- Automation-editor

- MIDI-support

Nasa World Wind

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:39:41 +0000

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.

Route 66 - an American badDream

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:09:28 +0000

Accompany three German hillbillies discovering the American culture on a weird road trip and see how they stumble into the American way of life as outsiders.

Route 66 - an American badDream (Original title: “Route 66 - ein amerikanischer albTraum”), the first full length open source film ever, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license in 2004, and available in English and German.

Stray Cinema

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:47:31 +0000

Stray Cinema is an open source film. Here you are able to download and re-edit raw footage from a film shot in New Zealand. This will provide people from all over the world with an opportunity to create their own version of the film.

Stray Cinema will navigate this film experiment out of the online digital world and into the ‘real world’ with a screening of the top five films in New Zealand. The footage shot in New Zealand is the second open source film provided by Stray Cinema.

Stray Cinema is an annual competition event.

Boy Who Never Slept

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:36:12 +0000

One of the world’s first full-length open source movies, Boy Who Never Slept tells the story of an insomniac writer who happens to meet a teenage girl online. What begins as merely a friendship develops into an unlikely love story wrapped in harsh reality. This film has received media attention from around the world for its open source release, its non-existent budget, and its edgy material. BWNS is a full length movie that anyone can watch, share, and even use in their own derivative works.

Elephants Dream

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:29:06 +0000

Elephants Dream is the culmination of the Orange Open Movie Project, produced by the Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The project was conceived to help develop and establish the capabilities of the Blender 3D open source tool for the creation of cinema quality animation.

The film tells the story of Emo and Proog, two people with different visions of 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, creating textures used in some of the scenes, and providing international translations for the DVD release.

Stellarium

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:13:21 +0000

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.