Tube: a free/open pro-grade animated film raising money on Kickstarter

Rob sez, "Elephants Dream, the original open movie directed by Bassam Kurdali, proved that it is possible to make high quality 3D animated films using free tools in a studio setting. The Tube Open Movie is a new experiment in distributed collaboration using cutting-edge tools for independent film-making. The Tube Open Movie is inspired by the ancient Gilgamesh poem, which comes down to us as an incomplete, conflicting set of fragments and variations, the clay tablet remnants of more than a few ruined libraries. The epic centers on the Sumerian king who ruled Uruk, in ancient Iraq, who for his tyranny the gods teach friendship and loss, and through them, the fear of his own death. In the end, the immortality he achieves is different to the one he first seeks. Nearly five thousand years later, Gilgamesh, a woman and a soldier, rushes into a station in pursuit of a fragment of paper blown about by the passing of trains. In an ever-accelerating vortex, her hero's journey becomes the animation's own frames."

Tube is the experimental production of a 3D animated short about the dream and failure and achievement of immortality. It's also a love letter to free software and open culture that marks their convergence with independent filmmaking.
Your support will enable us to finish a movie in which a passionate volunteer team has invested years of hard labor.

The finished product will be CC Attribution-ShareAlike, meaning that you can do anything with it, including commercial remixes, but you're required to allow others to remix your work on the same terms.

The Tube Open Movie (Thanks, Rob!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Blender is great, but gimp… ugh!!
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Everything about this is wonderful : D <3
rausantaella

Just curious… if Uruk was near Irak… maybe that means Bush wasn’t chasing Irakis, but Uruk-Hais. Bush son of Bush, the new Aragorn son of Arathorn. And Colin Powell as Gandalf the Not-White.