ZeMarmot team

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<h2>We produce an animation pilot: ZeMarmot</h2>
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	<em>ZeMarmot</em> is a project of <strong>2D <a href="https://film.zemarmot.net" rel="nofollow">animation movie</a></strong>, to be released under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow">Creative Commons by-sa
	</a>/<a href="https://artlibre.org/" rel="nofollow">Art Libre</a> licenses and fully made with creative Free Software (GIMP, Blender, Ardour…). <br>
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We are currently producing the pilot episode, as introduction for a longer story.
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The director and main artist is <strong>Aryeom</strong>, who trained and graduated in Fine Arts (major &quot;animation film&quot;) in South Korea and has been a professional animator and film director for years.<br>
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We develop GIMP and other Free Software</h2>
<strong>Jehan</strong> is <a href="https://www.openhub.net/p/gimp/contributors" target="_blank">the main developer of GIMP</a>, its <a href="https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/12/31/gimp-2021-annual-report/">maintainer</a> and <a href="https://www.openhub.net/accounts/Jehan/">contributor of many other Free Software</a>.<img src="https://girinstud.io/log/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screenshot-from-2016-12-29-06-13-39-768x432.png" style="width: 356px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;">
<br><div>As maintainers, we have a wide area of interest for GIMP: we fix bugs (a rock-solid software is the first step to quality and professional workflow), we improve existing feature (<em>painting</em> of course, but also filter infrastructure, better usability and graphical interface, eventually adding <em>animation support, </em>non-destructive workflow…) and regularly implement new features too. We are also really interested in <em>enhancing the plugin experience</em> by an order of magnitude.<br>
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<h2>What you get from it?</h2>
<img src="https://film.zemarmot.net/images/licenses.png" style="width: 125px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;"><strong>This movie is fully released under a Libre license.</strong> You will be able to watch it online, download it, share it, send to friends, remix it… Even raw resources will be freely released. In the end, this will be 
<strong>your movie as much as ours</strong>.<br>
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The second win is Free Software.</strong> This movie is not only a showcase, made with Free Software, we do
<strong>contribute code</strong> (and not just &quot;a bit&quot;). By funding us, <strong>you fund GIMP development</strong>, as well as for any other Free Software which we need to fix in the course of our project.<br>
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<a href="https://girinstud.io/news/2016/02/storyboarding-1/" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://girinstud.io/log/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/storyboard-post1-1-755x1024.jpg" style="width: 220px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;"></a>The third win is <strong>knowledge sharing</strong>. We organize workshops sometimes, and we document our process regularly (our <a href="https://girinstud.io/" target="_blank">production blog</a> is a good starter), because we don't believe in <em>secrets</em> and think that knowledge has to spread.
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So what do you get when you contribute? 
<em>You get your own movie, better free software, and knowledge about painting, animation and film making.</em> We will likely release everything earlier to our contributors, but you should know that nothing is planned to be contributor-only. In the end, everything should be for everyone.<br>
<h2>Synopsis</h2>
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	<em>Marmot likes to sleep, eat, and sleep again. One day, an old migratory bird tells him of the wonders of the world. Marmot decides to leave his home for the trip of his life and find the ultimate napping spot.<br>
	From Iran flying carpets to Paradise pacific island, Marmot will wander over the world and be the first marmot explorer. Will he find what he is looking for?
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<h2>Who makes it?</h2>
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Aryeom and Jehan are the project founders and its main participants. For us, digital arts creation and software development are intimately tied. Actually if we had not met, Aryeom may have never tried Free Software professionally and started this project; Jehan was already a Free Software developer yet he may have never become a GIMP contributor. We think that this team is the ultimate combo since the best artists should always be in control of their tools.<br>
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<a href="https://www.ammd.net/">AMMD</a> is a cooperative of professional musicians who also publish their music as Libre Art. They do the soundtrack.<br>
<a href="https://libreart.info">LILA</a> is a non-profit 
association under French law, for Libre Art, in which Aryeom is artist 
in residence. This project and funds are managed by this association.
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More artists showed their interest to come onboard, 2D and even 3D artists (since there is some usage of 3D in 2D animation, nowadays). We are only listing here the people <em>currently</em> working on ZeMarmot.
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With more funds, we would like to get more artists and more developers. Our project relies on paid work only because we consider that neither Free Software nor Libre Art mean &quot;free of charge&quot;. This is why we need to compensate fairly any contributor to the project.
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	<strong>Our secret goal?</strong> We want to make a professional non-profit animation studio, which produces quality Open Movies for the cinema, while massively improving creative Free Software. We believe it is possible; therefore we rely on you to help us make this dream come true! :-)<br>
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<h2>Why Free Software?</h2>
<img src="https://film.zemarmot.net/images/software.jpg" style="width: 291px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;">Free and Open Source Software are like Free Speech: you don't see the big deal until you lose these. LILA wants to create a sane creative work environment, and we want to create. We also want to contribute back.<br>
<em>ZeMarmot</em> is drawn with <a href="https://gimp.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GIMP</a>, edited with <a href="https://blender.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blender</a>, sound-edited with <a href="https://ardour.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ardour</a>, all of these under <a href="https://www.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GNU</a>/<a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux</a> operating systems…<br>

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Thank you! Any amount helps us and will put you in our film credits as a sponsor.<br>

You will get access to all blog posts, tutorial and resources before everyone else!<br><br>Also
 bigger patrons get their name bigger in the credits by becoming Silver 
sponsor, and can even have a logo/photograph shown as Gold sponsor 
(reaching respectively 200 USD and 400 USD). These credits are also 
displayed on the official website. Contributing more monthly gets you to
 these status faster.<br>

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