31-05-2008
Sparkde is a an animation studio located in Rome that is switching to an open source production pipeline. As part of this effort, I am joining them to help rig and animate an upcoming project in blender. I’ve been busy rigging this past week and a half, and will be in the studio for the next 4-5 weeks for the animation. The project is for CNIPA (Center for infotech in Public Administration), and it will be made as I said with blender for 3D ( Fedora Linux as the operating system for the studio).
I’m thrilled to go work on the movie and meet the team, including Enrico Valenza (EnV) who worked on Elephants Dream and on Big Buck Bunny. I hope this starts open source filmmaking movement in Italy - after all, Rome, Open City sparked the Italian Neorealism movement ;)
3-06-2008 at 3:31 pm
Nice, Blender’s RULE.
4-06-2008 at 1:01 pm
Wow, they got some pretty impressive stuff going on there… Great news they are switching to Open Source.
Can you tell us how the final pipeline looks like (application-wise)? Especially what is going to be used as digital asset management software… I’m still trying to find a working (and comfortable) Open Source solution. I don’t need a OS Version of Alienbrain, but something that works without too much hassle (I already tried SVN).
Best wishes,
Tobi
11-06-2008 at 1:12 am
Some very good works they have. Very nice to see that now they’re counting on you and Enrico.
Hope to see more from you in this new studio soon.
Cheers