A Good Use of Creative Commons and Blender.

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Bassam Kurdali reports about the use of his Mancandy video:

“When I made the Mancandy FAQ for the Blender Institute, we licensed the content as CC BY (the audio as CC BY NC) – mainly because the Blender Institute is committed to free/open code and media, and not in the business of making closed content. The value of something is enhanced (I think) every time someone uses it for a new and unexpected purpose.”

“Still, I thought that other than educational value, the video on the Mancandy FAQ was (intentionally) rather silly, and probably not versatile enough for lots of re-mix/re-use.

So you can imagine I was pretty surprised when I was contacted by Steve Lyon, from the noprofit accessibleevents about using some of the animation (under the terms of both the CC and CC NC licenses) for use in a video about Sexuality After Spinal Cord Injury (please note this is the work in progress video)

As a final addendum, Steve has informed me that he is working on another video about a boy with spina bifida; if anyone has time or content to help with the project, it would be wonderful to put together to show how the birth defect evolves – so anybody interested in helping out?”

Editor’s note: Explicite language and content used in the video. This is a frank and honest discussion of sexuality after a major injury so If the kids are around you may wish to view this later. Or you could stop viewing the video after the animated opening.

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    • http://www.byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      This a great use of Blender. We all need to know how our bodies work and animation is a practical way of educating about these processes. Thanks Bassam, Ton and all the developers of Blender for this wonderful too.

    • http://www.byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      *tool

    • Felix

      just a note you’ve made a typo in Bassams last name, its Kurdali. ;)

    • T-Rev

      Ah geeze, why’d you have to make that the Blendernation thumbnail?? Now I can’t even check this site at school without having questions raised! lol

    • http://www.animationbytim.com/ Tim Formica [Room335]

      Felix, thanks, fixed it.

      T-Rev maybe you could view it in your health or science class. :-)

    • musk

      Kudos and great to see that content can be put to practical use to make the world a better place.

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      It is a very good thing to see Blender used in various areas of applications.

      Congratulations.

    • Hedge

      Comment on the Editor’s note: Why are you afraid? The bible contains a very detailed description of 10 cases of incest in only one book. You should keep your Bible away from children if you are serious about that.

    • http://darsam.spaces.live.com DramaKing

      You should also mention that the video uses some of the music that Jan Morgenstern did for BBB.

    • http://www.animationbytim.com/ Tim Formica [Room335]

      Hedge, me, I’m not, but there are hundreds of thousands of readers from around the world from many different cultures and beliefs who come to this site. So I give them a warning so they can make their own decision about what to read. I have received comments in the past from some readers that have children and they share their Blender experience with them which is a wonderful thing for family, I’d hate to ruin that.

    • abdifatah

      i

    • DavidC

      How do we contact Steev aboout the Spina Bifida animation project?

    • http://www.veeaahh.com petellgra

      DavidC. Good question I would like to know too. Tried looking a few things up at their site found little of help. an email would be good.

    • http://www.fungamesparadise.com Dillon

      I really liked the way they came off