Cronopios & Famas – Blender / FLOSS Feature Film
A team in Argentina is working on a feature film using an open source toolchain.
Juan Pablo Bouza writes:Hi there!
I’m glad to present to you the first Trailer of Cronopios and Famas, an animation feature film that is being produced in Argentina, based of the short stories of writer Julio Cortazar.
The film is being created exclusively with Free and Open Source Software, from image treatment and animation, to audio editing and final mix. Production started more than 2 years ago and we’ve worked with a team of 5 to 7 people, so it has been a really hard job to get the almost 100 minutes of the film done.
The movie consists on ten different short stories based on Cortazar’s book. At the same time, each story has been painted by a renowned Argentinian artist. This paintings were digitized, treated in Gimp and then animated in Blender using a mix of 3d and 2d motion graphic techniques.
The audio of the film is also based on Creative Commons sounds downloaded from Freesound.org and has been edited in Ardour. The final video and audio editing is being made with Blender and Ardour synchronized as a single application using the Jack audio server (Jack transport).
No need to say that this is all done with Linux :p .
We are currently finishing compositing and doing the final render. My guess is that the whole movie will be finished by April. I’ll also try to make some of the project files available as Creative Commos, so that we can share the motion graphics tricks we used.
I hope you like it! I’ll be back with more news as soon as the movie is finished!
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Wonderful! very creative use of 2d/3d overlapping space. The stories are new to me, I look forward to you telling me.
That’s all very cool! Most of the 2d-objects in 3d space I don’t find very appealing, but the 3d guy with the sketched-on texturing (the one with the weird eye) is FANTASTIC.
The first style was my favourite. Iv’e never seen “Yarn” in 2d before. And the lighting was very awesome. Inspiring!
That’s interesting, but could you please put mature content warnings on stuff that contains nudity/foul language?.
So Bart knows Spanish? :)
I don’t know if Bart knows Spanish, but there are subtitles and I’m not sure it matters if the nude rendering is in Spanish or not – I was able to interpet that w/out subtitles :D
So I agree w/ Onion, mature content warning would be advisable.
Some very cool very 2d/3d techniques shown. Nice work!
warning????? duuude, you should not be so uncomfortable with the human body….. if there should be a warning, this one should be about violent content (but i haven´t seen anyone saying this) i remember this interview with George RR Martin (the author of a Song of Ice and Fire (HBO´s Game of Thrones)): http://acupboardfullofthoughts.tumblr.com/post/42670023257/george-r-r-martin-on-sex-versus-violence-this
Presumptuous are we? Look at the bigger picture, the community as a whole, not how you think people should view foul language or nudity. Someone who is viewing this with their children may find the above video very offensive. It has nothing to do with being uncomfortable, but rather letting the viewers know what they’re about to see may be objectionable content. Whether or not I think there’s a time in place for rated R content is not the issue. It’s a matter of showing respect to others belief systems.
?? i dont understand where did you get a presumtion from my statement…. any way, “Look at the bigger picture, the community as a whole, not how you think people should view foul language or nudity” the same can go to your argument, but what gets me is that violent content does not produce this type of hazzle… ” letting the viewers know what they’re about to see may be objectionable content” agreed (but if blendernation decides to do this i must ask for a violent content sign as well), but, my point earlier on was that there seems to be a hazzle about for just a second of a female body, that it is not presented in a dirty way, thats way i don´t understand, the warning sign?. warning??? warning means that there is danger, right?, do you find a second of vagina dangerous somehow?, that´s why i said that he feels uncomfortable with the human body, perhaps it is not an individual thing, but rather a cultural thing, i´m mean i´m from Chile, wich is next to Argentina, from where this movie comes from, and it kind of shocks me that someone asks for a warning sign for something that, i actually had to rewatch to understand from where did he get this idea…. and about the foul language i think it is the same, offensive words dont always are offensive (at least in spanish) it depends a lot of the context and the tone of voice…
From your response, It appears I’m unable to communicate clearly on the reason to suggest giving content “M” (mature) rating of some sort. I personally did not really find the material offensive, but I am aware that people from around the globe at various ages with different standards view this. All I can reiterate is we’re dealing with a global community. To keep things on topic on the forum and not derail the great artwork, I’ll refrain from further discussion on this. Bart has run a great site for years and I believe he’ll continue to do so.
best regards..
ok, but just to conclude i must say that the movie presented here does also show an execution and death, and not a pip was said about that…
…either way, great great art style :)
WOW… Just awesome!!
Very stylistic and a very original mix of multiple artistic appeals. This is art. The video was so entertaining that I didn’t bother to consider the tools or techniques. I just enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing it with us and I can’t wait to see where you go next.
P.S. The tools and technique are obviously well suited to your artwork.
I agree … there should be a (mature) in the title of the post.
There are so many styles. I had to re-read the intro to realize the work is from a variety of artists.
The next revolution in software will be about FLOSS. I’m absolutely sure about this.
belofilms.com is right.
I’m tired of this double morality about decency.
If you go to Louvre, they don’t warn you about nudity, that’s absurd. I went to Louvre and there were a lot of children.
If you turn on the TV and watch the news you can see a beheading, people being shoot and executions, and only some times there is a warning.
The problem is religion usually is being used as the base in wich morality is built. It shouldn’t be like this, morality shoud be not dependant of religion.
…Except that when you go to a museum, you usually know what you’re going to see, and you go there with a readiness for it. The context there is art, that context is obvious beforehand, and people go there with that mind frame about it, and usually, the nudity’s done to an effect that’s obviously artistic. Even the children can realize they’re in a museum–a place for art. It rolls right by their heads in this context.
However, with a place like here, where you have people of a wide range of ages coming here to check out the latest Blender creations, clicking on a video out of curiosity because the video’s context is not obvious, not necessarily expecting to see something of that sort, that is of a rather different nature completely. The context is simply different.
This isn’t the Louvre, nor does this place really carry itself as a fine art blog in particular–it’s a community for Blender users, indiscriminately. Most videos one would see here simply don’t fall into that category of nudity (or graphic violence), so when it does present itself here, it stands out.
It seems out of context when compared to the rest of what’s up, and even if it doesn’t bother you at all, it does still catch your attention a certain way. You even had some here who weren’t offended by the content here (and further–they made no indication about where they stand in life on “religion”) who still felt goaded enough to suggest a little disclaimer for this one. It was simply the sharp CONTRAST in content that brought about response, to say the least–not necessarily one’s “religious” motivation (if any, since again, no one made even the slightest indication here).
You don’t have to be religious to not want your kid exposed to nudity prematurely. Principles don’t have to be “religious”-based to be derived at–even if they just happen to be principles somewhat common to some religious views. It doesn’t take “religion” to realize killing’s wrong, for instance–it’s just a principle common to most with a brain. Same here–it doesn’t take religion for someone to want a little disclaimer here.
I’m pretty sure you most likely wouldn’t want perhaps, say, your female neighbor suddenly walking naked to your ten-year-old son in his room. You’d probably call the police, regardless what you believe about life. Even if you were a religious sort in this supposition here, your belief probably wasn’t the last thing on your mind–the shock of the CONTRAST of the norm and how you’re going to deal with it were first. To some folks (parents particularly), this might just be similar to one of those moments.
By the way, I don’t know what country you live in, but here in America at least, we don’t openly show beheadings on news on TV at all, and if there’s a footage of other deadly violence, usually there’s a brief disclaimer given by the newscaster–if not but a “now what you will see may be disturbing to some viewers…” In fact, most major news networks here are high-strung on giving a brief disclaimer–people do complain to the news networks and some “distraught” viewers do even try to sue sometimes. And no, violence on TV is quite the controversy here.
As for your ending argument of “morality should be not dependant of religion,” I think you’re in the wrong comment section. You’ll liable to start a fruitless discussion that goes off on a tangent here, because that’s a subjective issue of debate saved for another place–not here.
Though, I do find it funny how you’ve really claimed quite absolutely and authoritatively that there should be no absolute authority involved on the matter of morality. If that truly be the case, then there shouldn’t be any reason to be upset if someone else is stating authoritatively what should be done here, since their “say-so” is as good as yours.
Whenever you use “should” about something general in life, you have to answer “says who?” If the “who” is you in this case, then the other person whom you’ve argued against can also use themselves as “who,” and you’ll both be no closer to any objective truth than stands outside your relative claims of authority.
I thought about the issue of a content warning on this article for a long time, but I have concluded that I don’t believe it needs one. My personal check for warning is: “am I comfortable showing this to my own children?”. With a nude like the one in this movie certainly I certainly am (I’d sooner stop them from watching violence). So I’m sorry but no, I do not think this post needs a warning.
kudos to you, Bart!
Interesting art style. I like the “mixed media” usage here, if I can use that term about digital art here.
As for my two cents about the nudity, I won’t try to suggest a brief disclaimer of any sort here. But what I will suggest is something for parents who visit here.
I’m not a parent, but I am a guy who don’t always want to see nudity or violence (especially when I’m in public or at work, where it might draw awkward attention to me by passer-bys). But one thing I’ve gotten into the habit of doing in public places like these is to expect the unexpected, and treat everything I click on as a risk.
If I’m clicking on something where the risk isn’t certain, then I’m at the moment either preparing to risk clicking out of curiosity or I’m not going to click there when I don’t want any risk. It’s just that simple. One can demand warnings of viewers’ discretion concerning public places, but really, the best you can do for yourselves is know that you’re taking a risk, and make a decision based on that acute awareness.
And if you surf online with your kids, then that awareness should be twice as acute. I’m not a parent, but I can understand your concern. But at the same time, I can’t understand a lack of awareness of the risk you take when you go online. Vigilance is not easy, but it comes with the job as parent. No one’s held to that job but you. Just think about that before you may complain.
I don’t think that’s a valid point. It would be if we were talkinng about erotism or porn, but this is not the case. If you are watching tv with your kids and it shows Michael Angelo’s “David” I’m pretty sure nobody is going to think:”they sould warn beforehand there was going to be nudity in this documentary”
I hate puritanism sooo much….