Cosmos Laundromat

Cosmos Laundromat (Gooseberry Open Movie Project)
A scene from the film
Directed by	Mathieu Auvray
Produced by	Ton Roosendaal
Distributed by	Blender Foundation
Country	Netherlands
Language	English

Cosmos Laundromat, developed under the code name Gooseberry Movie Project is the 5th Open Movie Project initiated by Blender Foundation. Ton Roosendal announced the project in January 2010.^[1][2] Studio lineup was set in January 2014^[3] & Story board^[4] and Projects targets^[5] were announced in March. A crowd funding campaign also started in the same period.^[6] The film is to be written and produced by a coalition of more than 12 international animation studios around the globe. Work is expected to take 18 months, with 60–80 people participating full-time.^[7]

Following Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, Sintel and Tears of Steel the short movie is the fifth movie project from the Blender Foundation. It was created by the Blender Institute, a division of the foundation set up specifically to facilitate the creation of open content films and games.^[8] The film is intended to pilot release in beginning of 2015 and premiere by end. It's a full-length film, probably around 90 minutes. The film itself and any material made in the studio are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.^[9] The initial ten minute pilot was released onto YouTube on August 10, 2015.^[10] Through the funding raised for production of the film, the Blender Foundation was able to improve on existing or add new features to the software product.^[11]

Plot

Cosmos Laundromat - First Cycle - Official Blender Foundation release

The story is funny, absurdist, adventurous love story about a sheep named Franck, who longs for a more interesting life.^[12]

Project goals

The goals of Gooseberry Project according to Ton Roosendaal are^[13]

• Open Movies as a Blender development model.
• Raise the bar – make a feature animation film.
• Investigate using Cloud services and features for open source projects.
• Building the world’s largest free/open 3d content & education repository.
• New business model for Blender Institute and Foundation.
• Occupy Bay Area & Hollywood.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cosmos Laundromat.

• Official website
• Project's Teaser
• Cosmos Laundromat at the Internet Movie Database
• Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle at archive.org