May 29, 2015

Trailer for Blender's new open source film "Cosmos Laundromat

The Blender Institute has released the trailer for Cosmos Laundromat, an "absurd love story" directed by Mathieu Auvray.

The Amsterdam-based Blender Foundation develops the open-source CG software Blender and also runs the Institute, which produces original content like this film. The process is documented online through a comprehensive website and weekly live broadcasts by the crew.

"Cosmos Laundromat" is scheduled for release in August. The film's primary method of financing is through monthly subscriptions to Blender Cloud, a training resource for Blender software users. The film is planned as a pilot for a television series or feature film and, if produced, will be the first ever free/open source series or feature film.

Blender's mission is to be free... Open Source... open-content cartoon, and to upend all conventional animation production models. While it is too early to determine whether their approach will be widely adopted, Blender's approach suggests an attractive alternative to the typical methods of financing, producing, and distributing animated content.

As for the "love story" of Cosmos Laundromat, it is a bit more complicated than the trailer suggests. On a desolate island, Frank, a suicidal sheep, has a fateful encounter with an eccentric salesman named Victor. The eccentric salesman named Victor offers him the gift of a lifetime. In the pilot, Frank meets Victor and visits his first world, a vibrant jungle, where he is transformed into a caterpillar. In the next episode, Frank finds a new reason for living... She is a bewitching female adventurer named Tara. But can Frank keep up with her...