'Doljer' Playing on UK Filmfestival Filmstock

Published by Bart on October 11th, 2007 in Art, People

"A racoon, alone in the woods, to the haunting sounds of ‘The Knife’. "

This is the description of Adam Procter's short 'Doljer', which has been accepted into the UK filmvestival Filmstock in Luton.

Adam writes:

I have recently completed 'Doljer' an Open Source & Carbon Netural animated film made predominately in blender and other open source software. It has just been accepted into the UK film festival filmstock for its first public screening.

I am also planning to release the files under a creative commons licence shortly after the screening.

More details are [available on my site] - including a full production blog post on how the film was made using opensource software and the ideas process I took, along with details about my next open source participation film 'Urban Monk'.

Adam expects to publish Doljer on the web after the festival. When he does we'll let you know!

The festival's program is a little confusing, but I *think* Doljer will play on Saturday, November 3rd on 7pm and on Sunday, November 4th on 12.10PM

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1 basse Oct 11th, 2007 at 7:51 am

ooh.. i love "the knife"s..
seems like fun project, look forward seeing it somewhere.

.b
2 humble Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:59 am

Hey!
I want to watch the movie! Immediately! ;-)
Is there any chance to watch it after the festival online?
3 adam Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:52 am

I will post it somewhere - Ill let people know asap
4 x Oct 11th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

how come ppl who use flash and illustrator talk about open source oO
5 Bart Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

"how come ppl who use flash and illustrator talk about open source oO"

Better watch out - the open source gestapo is here again!!
6 humble Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:23 pm

@x:
yeah, bart is right and did you notice he's using blender?
Combining commercial and non-commercial tools is a good way imho since
many features that are given in comm. packages are not existing in the OS tools yet.
And as he said, he's more used to illustrator than to inkscape, so why
should he use inkscape for a film he has to create in a certain amount of time?

Many people seem to make OS their religion which is a bad tendency in my eyes since
diversity is a big plus in the creative world!
7 Þiðrekr Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

"how come ppl who use flash and illustrator talk about open source oO"

Some of us–myself included–use Blender because we like it, not because we have an ideological hatred of all proprietary software.
8 x Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

guys… didnt mean to flame, just wanted to remind that using blender doesnt make your whole workflow open source.
to be real, using opensource only wouldnt have produced such a movie, or no movie at all ;)

so plz save the words gestapo and religion
9 adam Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

"how come ppl who use flash and illustrator talk about open source oO"

I would have used inkscape and pencil but my speed in the 'commericial' apps was far more usefull. See blog post on my site. I wish I had to a degree but I time was also a factor.
10 basse Oct 11th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

x:
yep, but i dont think he ever said it's completely made with opensource tools.
he said it's made with blender and some other tools.

BUT, i don't believe for a second, that only opensource tools couldn't have been used. as the author said.
ofcourse, i haven't seen the movie yet, but still.

hmm, i can't believe i actually went along with this conversations.. oh well..

.b
11 musk Oct 11th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

TO be precise his movie is opensource if he opens up his sources. A project is not opensource just because you use opensource ;

BTW Adam how do you know that it is carbon neutral? Didn't you use a computer that uses electricity ;) Just nit picking…
12 x Oct 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

ok your are right,
im out of this silly conversation :)
looking forward so see the movie,
judging by the pictues that are released so far the style looks very promising
13 adam Oct 11th, 2007 at 3:38 pm

Hello, I paid to offset the Co2 - I have a certificate and everything (see blog post about it) - if you want usage calcluations I have them ;)
I am pretty sure it could have all been done opensource, when you see it im sure you will agree, I am not the most complicated animator in the world, its the story that I wish to tell…..I suppose I should have not said opensource movie - maybe predominately opensource plus the creator loves open source and the blender community …. but I am trying to also market it a little :D and I am chuffed to be on blendernation too :D
14 adam Oct 11th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Oh and yes all the files will be out after the festival, on creative commons licence.
15 Bart Oct 11th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

@x: I misinterpreted your comment then, sorry about that. We get many over-zealous comments about open source here and sometimes they tick me off, I guess ;-)
16 tedi Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

!! OPEN SAUCE !!!

sez me

(learnt that from theinquirer ;)
17 Kernon Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

…a carbon neutral animated film…ROTFLMAO! That is just funny as hell. LMAO…

…anyway, it looks interesting and I look forward to seeing it. Good Luck.

BTW, how do you carbon-neutrally view a carbon-neutral animated film?…LMAO!
18 Kernon Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:51 pm

spelling issues with "neutral"….LMAO! sorry.
19 Tony Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

This looks like an awesome animation. I'm really looking forward to seeing it and checking out the source files. The Blender community benefits a lot when people do work like this, and even more when they make the source files available. Thanks!
20 Adam Oct 11th, 2007 at 11:22 pm

Wow thanks for all the comments !
21 Adam Nov 22nd, 2007 at 11:03 pm

due to not being able to access my server I have not been able to upload my files, as soon as I can I will.
22 crazybus Nov 29th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

The movie and files have finally being posted http://meanwhile.beds.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=104