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Making-of: Spring

Gottfried Hofmann
05.05.2019
Blender is a beacon project in the field of open source computer graphics. One of the reasons for its success is the open movies, in which the realisation of a specific project goes hand in hand with the development of the software. This concept can be traced back to the time when Blender was still an in-house solution from the Dutch studio NeoGeo. Back then, it was quite normal for artists and developers to work together in one place. Ultimately, it was the experience gained back then that led us to continue working on animation projects – even after Blender became open source. However, with a different sign.

Not only the results of the software development itself, but also the films should remain open. The team around the Blender Institute, founded in Amsterdam, has thus become a pioneer in the use of Creative Commons licences for assets that are not code and crowdfunding to finance projects. 13 years - 12 short films The Blender Foundation's first Open Movie, "Elephants Dream", was published in 2006. The twelfth short film, "Spring", was released 13 years later. A few things have changed since then. The Blender Institute has become the Blender Animation Studio. Financing is no longer based on crowdfunding, but on the Blender Cloud, where the data of all previous open movies, training videos and other Blender-related services are made available for a monthly subscription fee. Blender 2.8 is Production-Proven But one thing has remained the same: The Open Movies continue to serve to support the development of Blender. And just as "Sintel" accompanied the transition from Blender 2.49 to Blend...

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Gottfried Hofmann Author
Gottfried Hofmann is a graduate computer scientist and offers for more than a decade training and professional support for the free support for the free 3D software Blender. As a freelance author he writes for trade and computer magazines and has written numerous Blender tutorials. He runs the website www.BlenderDiplom.com, on which Blender tutorials are available in German and English language are available and training courses can be booked, and helps with the organisation of BlenderDay and Blender Summer School, the German-language conference for Blender users, which takes place annually in Mannheim .