The Tube Open Movie
A project in Northampton, MA by Bassam Kurdali000days
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An experimental animation about the pursuit of immortality; a love letter to free software and open culture
Backers: 1031
Average Pledge Per Backer: $39
Funded: $40,233 of $22,000
Dates: Apr 16th -> May 16th (31 days)
Project By: Bassam Kurdali
Backers: 1031
Average Pledge Per Backer: $39
Funded: $40,233 of $22,000
Dates: Apr 16th -> May 16th (31 days)
Project By: Bassam Kurdali
$40,233
current pledge level
Last Updated: May 28 @ 05:39 -0400 GMT
182%
of goal
(loading your very own snazzy kicktraq chart)
Latest News
Wires for Empathy 
August 4th - via: kickstarter.com
At SIGGRAPH (the biggest computer graphics conference in the US, with a sizeable Blender presence), we have just premiered the spanking new trailer for the Tube Open Movie. And with its release, we also reveal the film's title: Wires for Empathy.... (Read More)
Production News
July 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Friends! Supporters! Please pardon the radio silence while we've been cranking frenetically to get the movie made. Conducting such an ambitious project with a tiny budget means that we all work on Tube with one hand while also keeping the lights on... (Read More)
Want to join Tube as an Artist or Intern?
January 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
We are thrilled by the "totally awesome" render tests coming off the farm, with supreme animatador / pixelero Pablo Vazquez (venomgfx) visiting our 'Nerdodrome' home base to head up lighting and look-dev, but there is juicy work still to do on the... (Read More)
Pablo Vazquez joins project as lighting supervisor/ art director
January 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Great news everyone! This coming Tuesday we welcome Pablo Vazquez, who's visiting us for 5 weeks to work on kicking off our lighting/look dev pipeline, Giving me time to focus on finishing our animation tasks up. Currently we are almost out of... (Read More)
News + MediaGoblin is Rad
November 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Over at the Tube project we're getting really excited to show all the incredible animation and amazing render tests coming off the farm. And even though we don't want to let *too* much slip before time, I know Bassam is planning an update with some... (Read More)
Pipeline changes!
July 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hey folks! sorry for the relative lack of updates- it actually *is* good news, in the sense that we've been so busy with production that everyone has slacked in communication. I've got a quick blogpost up with details about our modified setup for... (Read More)
With 86 minutes left on the clock, we've just broken the 40K mark!
May 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Probably there's quite a few of us out there reloading every little while to see what will happen :) If you can think of even 1 more person to call who might support this project in the next hour, we have a shot at doubling the barebones goal we set... (Read More)
5 Days: Can We Hit Full Funding?
May 9th - via: kickstarter.com
With just days left for the Tube project at Kickstarter, we want to see how close we can get to our production funding target of $50K! The goal is in sight -- you can help make it a massive success by getting the word to your people and their... (Read More)
LGM Talk about the Tools of Tube
May 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi folks, Libre Graphics Meeting is a great conference well attended by developers of free/open source software--all the programs we use in the making of Tube. Since we weren't able to be at the meeting in Vienna this year, I prepared a short remote... (Read More)
Promotional Postcard / A5
April 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Here we have a Tube Open Movie postcard / A5 suitable for printing! Rather than ship them all over the world, we offer the print-ready files [front, back] (in CMYK with bleed margins in place). We hope anyone who wants to help promote the project and... (Read More)
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