by: John Winsor
Check out this great article in the New York Times today by Brooks Barnes entitled, An Animated Film is Created Through Internet Consensus. Here’s a snippet:
Mass Animation is just one of several entertainment companies working the “crowdsourcing” angle. Perhaps the largest is Aniboom, which was founded in 2006 by the Israeli media mogul Uri Shinar and bills itself as a Web-based animation studio. Aniboom has built a global team of nearly 8,000 animators who have uploaded more than 13,000 clips into Aniboom’s library.
There is no doubt that animation and film is an area rip for innovation through crowdsourcing and co-creation. If you’re not familiar with the mass animation project on Facebook here are the details of how the project ran:
Original Post: http://www.johnwinsor.com/my_weblog/2009/07/crowdsourced-animation.html
