Give It Up!

It's a simple and bold proposal - All filmmakers(rebels) using CG/effects who are operating outside the "system" should share their assets -period.

If you are not under studio control - Rebel filmmaker - you should post your models, textures, CG scripts, effects setup, even tutorials (time permitted) online for FREE. Why would anyone need to waste time modeling birds, WWII soldiers, and airplanes when someone has made a photoreal, multi-resolution one in their spare time? Post it! Even if you are making your film that you have spent the last 5 years writing and planning, post your assets! Give them to the community at large.... and we will all be better off for it.

You have to remember, even if you gave the public all of your footage and assets.... it most likely would not hurt your film. It takes your unique talent and skills to make your film.... and even if someone else had your tools, they could not make your film.

If everyone in the rebel filmmaking community would share high quality assets... then everybody's films could benefit. These kinds of shifts in thinking need to start somewhere, and I am in a position to start the process. I am part of a small group planning a shoot early 2009, and we need many 3D setpieces and characters built. But when we have them built, we will also post them for download... for free. It is costing us a fair amount of money to build these, but the next guy will pay nothing! And maybe next time, we'll pay nothing for high quality assets.

We'll be posting WWII era characters in different resolutions, barns and farm equipment, and a creature or two, along with all the textures. Again.... remember.... it's not the assets... it's the talent that makes good use of them. You cannot post talent. Don't worry, giving it up will not hurt you!