Jathias Wager Free Science Fiction Movie - Open Source Collaborative Filmmaking
Jathia’s Wager is an open source collaborative filmmaking project where the community works together to write, produce and distribute a movie for free via the Internet.
View ArticleLinux Goes Hollywood With New Terra Soft Film Rendering Tool
Creating modern digital visual effects in movies is not an easy process. The job falls on clusters of computers called "render farms." Terra Soft, developer of the Yellow Dog Linux distro, says its new...
View ArticleLinux Powers The Spiderwick Chronicles
A Linux-based production pipeline is a perfect choice for a major motion picture like The Spiderwick Chronicles, with its many goblins and magical creatures. Hollywood has been the realm of Linux since...
View ArticleOpen Letter - Please Show Linux Credit at Movie Endings
Dear Respected Filmmaker... I'm writing to ask that you give credit to GNU/Linux during the time when the credits roll on films you make with GNU/Linux.
View ArticleOpen-source films attack Hollywood
The Star Wreck Studios team, based in Tampere, Finland, has built a virtual studio for Iron Sky and an open-source platform that gives anybody the chance to make a film at no cost. They have recruited...
View ArticleRomantic Open Source Films, Anyone?
Are you in the mood for love? If your answer is "sí señor", then perhaps you may like these two open source films that I'm going to share to you. And yes, I said open source.
View ArticleBig Buck Bunny, We Want More!
Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation, made another animated open content film entitled Big Buck Bunny. The short movie is created using only free and open source software.read more
View ArticleThe Morevna Project: Anime with Synfig and Blender
The Morevna Project aims to create an animated film in a modern anime-style retelling a very old Russian folktale known as "Marya Morevna". It's a free culture production project pushing the envelope...
View ArticleMaking Movies with Free Software
I'm working on not one, but two animated science-fiction films using free software tools, intended for a free-licensed release on the internet under new distribution models. And, being a writer, I'm...
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