And in case you don’t already know it, you might also want to check out the first open movie the institute made. It’s called Elephants Dream (Project Orange) and the story is… well, not your average kind of story. More like the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey, even though much more enjoyable thanks to the eye candy.

Coming up from the institute is Project Apricot. Not a movie this time, but a game based on BBB, in collaboration with the Crystal Space Game Engine.

These projects are all great. They not only show nice results, but also lead to huge improvements of the open source software and show the work process/pipeline to anyone who is interested in the topic. Anyone working with 3D, movies, games and open source should pay attention to the projects, regardless if you use the software or not. One can learn very much from there.

Free software… free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Well, that is the GNU definition of free software. But Open Source can even bend that rule somewhat, with the free beer projects by FreeBeer.org and [project 21]. You can buy the booze or brew it yourself. Now that’s the Open Source spirit at it’s best. So now, we still won’t have free beer, but free beer instead.

Too bad I don’t drink… but luckily there’s the good old OpenCola as well.