Ian Lewis' Blog

Today I found the Peach website and became one of the first 1000 to pre-order the DVD. If you get it you should see my name in the credits.

Peach is the next short movie project after Elephants Dream that is being produced by the Blender Foundation. It is an open movie like Elephants Dream so it will be presumably released under the creative commons and available for download for free as well as being developed entirely using free software. Most prominently, Blender.

I simply can't express in words how cool I think this is. The Blender Foundation has done a terrific job promoting Blender, and creating projects and conferences around it. I think they have done a huge service to the free software community by developing Blender into a mature and very usable, professional piece of software, and to academics by submitting the results of both Elephants Dream and, soon, Peach to the ACM SigGraph conference.

Another project to keep an eye on is Plumíferos which I think is aiming to be a longer film project created using Blender. It's amazing to see the interesting projects and work coming from the Blender community.

I really hope for more of the best for Blender and the community as they continue to create quality software and open content.