<story><title>Why Gooseberry, the open animation film, matters</title><url>http://gooseberry.blender.org/why-gooseberry-matters/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nwatson</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; There&amp;#x27;s a real growing unrest out there about how a few greedy people control [the movie] business -  making their billions&lt;p&gt;Those greedy people understand the importance of &amp;quot;story.&amp;quot;  The Gooseberry trailer showed no promise there.  The industry story telling isn&amp;#x27;t always that great but I could see none in the Blender trailer.&lt;p&gt;If this is just a technical showcase label it such. The early pixar public demos were such but their stories were so great audiences looked forward to the five minute delay to see them before the main feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>watt</author><text>The quote goes on and in fact references the &amp;quot;Rhythm &amp;amp; Hues&amp;quot; VFX company that won the Oscar for work on &amp;quot;Life of Pi&amp;quot; visual effects. While at the same time filing for bankruptcy and firing 238 employees. (Life of Pi made $609mil worldvide on budget of $120mil.) Those greedy people.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Gooseberry, the open animation film, matters</title><url>http://gooseberry.blender.org/why-gooseberry-matters/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nwatson</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; There&amp;#x27;s a real growing unrest out there about how a few greedy people control [the movie] business -  making their billions&lt;p&gt;Those greedy people understand the importance of &amp;quot;story.&amp;quot;  The Gooseberry trailer showed no promise there.  The industry story telling isn&amp;#x27;t always that great but I could see none in the Blender trailer.&lt;p&gt;If this is just a technical showcase label it such. The early pixar public demos were such but their stories were so great audiences looked forward to the five minute delay to see them before the main feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panzi</author><text>Besides the problem illustrated in LIFE AFTER PI I think that AutoDesk seems to buy up all&amp;#x2F;most of the competition is a bit worry some and every bit of more competition is a good thing.</text></comment>