Bear Town: Reloaded
Well, Bear Town is back.
"Back" in the sense that it is once again being actively developed, with a few changes. After spending the past year or so researching, experimenting and working out the details, I've decided to make Bear Town as a feature-length open movie.
What's an open movie?
Basically, an open movie is a film that makes it's footage and other source materials freely available for others to examine, experiment with and even remix in to their own movies. The Blender Foundation's Orange Project is probably the best example of this so far.
What this means is that the finished film will be released over the Internet under a Creative Commons license along with most of the resources (footage, 3D models, After Effects project files, etc.) used to create it. I even plan to release most of the puppet patterns that will be used for the puppet characters for others to learn from and improve on. For more details see the site's newly revised About page.
As you may have noticed, the web site is back online with more on the way. It's been reorganized in to several new sections - About, a Media Gallery, Behind-the-Scenes and the blog. There's no forum for the moment, but I will probably bring that back that some point.
According to the schedule I'm working with right now, Bear Town will be done in about two and half years, in the fall of 2008. The other change I'm making is that as an open movie I want to make the film collaboratively with other artists over the web. Taking this approach is really an experiment and like all experiments, I'm not entirely sure how it will turn out, but I can't wait to see how this develops.
Stay tuned.
"Back" in the sense that it is once again being actively developed, with a few changes. After spending the past year or so researching, experimenting and working out the details, I've decided to make Bear Town as a feature-length open movie.
What's an open movie?
Basically, an open movie is a film that makes it's footage and other source materials freely available for others to examine, experiment with and even remix in to their own movies. The Blender Foundation's Orange Project is probably the best example of this so far.
What this means is that the finished film will be released over the Internet under a Creative Commons license along with most of the resources (footage, 3D models, After Effects project files, etc.) used to create it. I even plan to release most of the puppet patterns that will be used for the puppet characters for others to learn from and improve on. For more details see the site's newly revised About page.
As you may have noticed, the web site is back online with more on the way. It's been reorganized in to several new sections - About, a Media Gallery, Behind-the-Scenes and the blog. There's no forum for the moment, but I will probably bring that back that some point.
According to the schedule I'm working with right now, Bear Town will be done in about two and half years, in the fall of 2008. The other change I'm making is that as an open movie I want to make the film collaboratively with other artists over the web. Taking this approach is really an experiment and like all experiments, I'm not entirely sure how it will turn out, but I can't wait to see how this develops.
Stay tuned.
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