‘Tube’ Open Movie Internships with Bassam @ Bit Films

Calling all students (18+), recent graduates, and professionals wanting to ply their 3D skills in free software: Applications are open to join Bassam’s team this spring for the production of Tube, hosted by the very cool Bit Films Animation Incubator at Hampshire College, Massachusetts. Helmed by Chris Perry, formerly of Pixar and Rhythm & Hues, […]

‘Tube’ Open Movie Internships with Bassam @ Bit Films

Calling all students (18+), recent graduates, and professionals wanting to ply their 3D skills in free software:

Applications are open to join Bassam’s team this spring for the production of Tube, hosted by the very cool Bit Films Animation Incubator at Hampshire College, Massachusetts.

Helmed by Chris Perry, formerly of Pixar and Rhythm & Hues, the program draws together a number of interesting projects and a lot of talent, so although the internships are unpaid, it promises to be a very stimulating and fruitful space.

For applicants to Tube, there is a possibility that housing can be offered.

The official internship period runs from February 7, 2011 through May 13, 2011. Applications are due (via email) no later than Monday January 31, 2011 at 5pm (EDT).  We understand that this is short lead time for those in need of making visa and travel arrangements. Because the project is ongoing, the internship period is flexible; if in doubt, apply!

Although it may not provide as immersive an experience, we are open to considering applicants to a remote internship. Remote interns would join the already semi-distributed team using our web-based project management software, SVN, and IRC.

Full Bit Films announcement and FAQ. Questions? Email fateh [at] freefac [dot] org.

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Total Radness

Bassam will soon be reporting on the Blender Conference, and we have a number of cool announcements coming up — but first I want to congratulate our own Jarred de Beer for taking this year’s Suzanne Award for Character Animation! Jarred was a visiting animator/TD on the Tube project for nearly a year, and is […]

Total Radness

Bassam will soon be reporting on the Blender Conference, and we have a number of cool announcements coming up — but first I want to congratulate our own Jarred de Beer for taking this year’s Suzanne Award for Character Animation!

Jarred was a visiting animator/TD on the Tube project for nearly a year, and is now part of our distributed team working from his native South Africa. During his time here, Jarred attended SIGGRAPH; participated in a 48 Hour Film Festival short organized by crewmate Jason Van Gumster; and with Pablo Lizardo, also did a mini-project for Sintel  (in honor of which we privately call the Durian movie, “Backpack”).

Though it would have been a nice personal touch, Bassam couldn’t accept on his behalf because, having pulled the usual all-nighter to Make Epic the awards presentation — this time with CG conceived by Andy Goralczyk — he had to be up in the projection room pressing the space key.

Check it out, yo: Grey Justice takes on the High Bar.



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Autumn Internships at Bit Films

Calling all students (18+), recent graduates, and professionals wanting to ply their 3D skills in free software: Applications are open to join Bassam’s team this fall, hosted by the very cool Bit Films Animation Incubator Program at Hampshire College, Massachusetts. Helmed by Chris Perry, formerly of Pixar and Rhythm & Hues, the program draws together […]

Autumn Internships at Bit Films

Calling all students (18+), recent graduates, and professionals wanting to ply their 3D skills in free software:

Applications are open to join Bassam’s team this fall, hosted by the very cool Bit Films Animation Incubator Program at Hampshire College, Massachusetts.

Helmed by Chris Perry, formerly of Pixar and Rhythm & Hues, the program draws together a number of interesting projects and a lot of talent, so although the internships are unpaid, it promises to be a very stimulating and fruitful space. For applicants to Tube, there is a possibility that housing can be offered.

The official internship period runs from September 20 to December 17, 2010. Applications are due (via email) no later than Monday September 13, 2010 at 5pm (EDT)).  We understand that this is short lead time for those in need of making visa and travel arrangements. Because the project is ongoing, the internship period is flexible; if in doubt, apply!

Although it may not provide as immersive an experience, we are open to considering applicants not able to join us locally, but interested to join the already semi-distributed team for a remote internship using our web-based project management software, SVN, and IRC.

Full announcement and FAQ here. Still have questions? Leave a comment, or email me, fateh [ at ] freefac [ dot ] org.

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Useful Arts

At the Libre Planet conference in Boston/Cambridge earlier this year, we saw the premiere of Patent Absurdity, a great new documentary on patent issues in software. The film offers a succinct account of the risk to culture posed by Intellectual Property law’s recent metastasis. And– it has animation done in Blender by pal, Chris Webber. […]

Useful Arts

At the Libre Planet conference in Boston/Cambridge earlier this year, we saw the premiere of Patent Absurdity, a great new documentary on patent issues in software. The film offers a succinct account of the risk to culture posed by Intellectual Property law’s recent metastasis. And– it has animation done in Blender by pal, Chris Webber. You can watch it here.

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Creative Commie

Today’s Guardian/Observer has a good piece on philosopher and Imp of the Perverse, Slavoj Žižek. He remarks, [T]he problem is always the same. It’s the enclosure of the commons. Marx was talking about land and property when he wrote about this, but today intellectual property is our commons, information is our commons. Something that Marx […]

Creative Commie

Today’s Guardian/Observer has a good piece on philosopher and Imp of the Perverse, Slavoj Žižek. He remarks,

[T]he problem is always the same. It’s the enclosure of the commons. Marx was talking about land and property when he wrote about this, but today intellectual property is our commons, information is our commons. Something that Marx could not have predicted is taking place today: we are witnessing a strange regression to the same kind of enclosure of the commons, and people having to pay rent to people like Bill Gates for intellectual property.

Also, Žižek’s performance in the vastly entertaining Pervert’s Guide to Cinema is not one to miss. A favorite scene moves between Hitchcock and Coppola’s excellent film, The Conversation:

“Gaze is that obscure point, the blind spot, from which the object looked upon returns the gaze…After suspecting that a murder is taking place in a nearby hotel room, Gene Hackman, playing the private detective, enters this room and inspects the toilet. The moment he approaches the toilet in the bathroom it is clear that we are in Hitchcock territory; it is clear that some kind of intense, implicit dialogue with Psycho is going on…“

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