I've not really mentioned "shoot em up", I'm not very fond of that genre even. But that's for the team to decide later. In short, what I like to explore for the next open movie:
- tagline "Maximum impact, No story!"
- action choreography
- massive and epic scenes
- sculpting (monsters, detailed humans) and detail render
- smoke/fire/explosions
- 4k (stereo view?) digital cinema
Just a lot of (adolescent) fun! Definitely another episode in our "open source violence" series ;)

All of the above please take with a grain of salt, it's just ideas and plans in progress, and nothing official yet. I have to work on Blender first. :) I'll be focusing on the 2.5 recode for the rest of the year at least. A new project will only be launched when the new code is in a usable state, which might well be not before march/april next year.

-Ton-

I'm really happy about the wonderful response that the launch of this contest has brought about. I truly hope that we get some absolute kick-ass masterpieces coming out of this. The talent is there, and Blender's capabilities is there.

As for the nudity … LOL … yeh I'm not particularly a fan of looking and male lunchpacks either, however it comes with the territory - depending on how much detail is needed for a specific character and Anatomy study. A simple example would be the creation of character skins for Second Life.

Luckily this is a contest focusing mainly on Portraiture, and by selecting your specific needs on the left hand side of 3d.sk's website it should take ya all the way to portraits and exclude nudity.

I really hope everyone has a fun time with this contest, and lets show them what we're made of heh!!

Cheers
Len

I have to chuckle at some of the posts about nude subjects, like the person who attributed the nude sculpture David to the Greeks. *chuckle* Just a few hundred years off, but hey, who counts a century or two? (David was created during the Renaissance by an Italian, fellow named Mike or something like that). In any case, truly serious human anatomy books (those that I'm familiar with, anyway) rarely omit genitalia as a sop to goofy cultural mores, it's all just part of learning a subject, one that's been depicted in various stages of dress and undress for about 40,000 years or more, and near as I can tell, it hasn't led to the destruction, or even noticeable harm, of any society, ever. Even more explicit subjects have been a component of the full spectrum of art in hundreds if not thousands of cultures, and I guarantee that politics and religion have done vastly more to damage human societies than any risque imagery.

Durian is the "code name" for Ton Roosendaal's ( whom loves fruit names) next open movie project. As I recall from my conversation with Ton at SIGGRAPH about it, it is essentially a loud, special FX, shoot em up, with lots of action, movie. An oppisite of the "warm and fuzzy" Peach project.

Slightly off topic, but since this was mentioned, does anyone know the plans regarding when this is going to start? If there's already a link somewhere that explains this, as well, I'd be interested!