Blender is open source software that allows you to create animations. The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization that helps to develop Blender.
To improve Blender, they have created movies. In that process, developers and movie makers sat in one room. So when the movie makers had a problem or discovered a bug, the developers could see and eventually fix that.
By now, they have created four short movies. These movies are DRM-free, free to use and ... well, you can basically do what you want with them:
Project Gooseberry is an attempt to create a full-length movie. Here is a first trailer:
But creating movies is quite cost-intensive. A lot of people are involved and a lot of processing power is needed to create those animations. So the Blender Foundation has started a Crowdfunding Campaign.
- You can pledge what you want. I've pledged 5 Euros.
- When you pay via PayPal and they don't manage to get the 500 000 Euro they aim for, you get your money back.
- The campaign ends on April 19th, 2014.
Current campaign status
You can see the current campaign status here.
By now (25th of March, 13:37) 809 people have supported this campaign and 65,780 Euro have been pledged.
Let me know in the comments if you supported the campaign: support now.