Sep
Studio Orange Begins Pre-production
/ by Orange
The Studio Orange core team is now complete and together and we have begun the pre-production phase of our open movie project!
We have a brand new website, with a blog that we'll keep up to date with snippets about the movie, concepts and shots, technical tests and info, and general ramblings from the team. Explore the site and keep checking back often to see our progress! Feel free to post your comments here, too. We hope to use this to enable more open interaction with external volunteers, but more on that later!
For the next six weeks, we will be working on concept design, scripting, storyboards, technical research and development, in order to present a teaser trailer at the 2005 Blender Conference in Amsterdam. From here on, production will begin in earnest and continue until our deadline next year.
To help make this project a continued success, please help us out by pre-ordering the extended edition DVD with the movie, making-of documentary and all productions files as open content. Check it out at the e-shop.
We're releasing some of our initial concept ideas and drawings to give an idea of what we're going to be working on. In order to keep our energy focused and coherent, we can't reveal everything at once, but here's a brief description:
Title: Machina
Deep in the folds of a giant machine, two characters and a little robotic duck explore the twisted and dark complex of wires, tubes and cogs, until one day a conflict arises that throws out all our assumptions about the world that they inhabit... This 3D animation movie short couples passionate characters with a truly epic story line.
And some initial visual concepts:
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Stay tuned for more!
