I absolutely love this idea:
“Sintel” is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender.
With initial funding provided by 1000s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3D technology as for independent animation film.
Wow. I love how community can come together to promote something that they passionately love and use for their creative needs!
Check out this video trailer, which is slick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOh2rfT8nxs
[HT: Kevin]
Kevin says
btw, the whole short film was just released online yesterday at http://sintel.org including links to download or youtube.
Kevin
http://www.opensourcechurch.com