 You You You Okay, no problem Welcome. Yeah, please Okay. Hello everyone. My name is Pablo I come from Spain and I'm studying game design in colon while I'm also independent in game developer I'm working more on the animation and modeling part This is my first time here and my first time I say hello to you all so I'm with shaky, but it's fine And I have trouble imaging you all naked. So could you just take your clothes off, please? No, no, it was the joke. It was a joke. Okay So you can see some of stuff I do here. You can see a software here used Mostly better, of course, that's why I'm here But the important is that I only use free software for for it seems from the operating system To all the tools I'm using there You can watch this While I drink a bit of this secret water Yeah, and I've been lately Well, since one year missing around with blender game engine. I think it's very powerful And I want to talk about that also Be that you can walk this game is called hardcore chicken 3d If it doesn't look hardcore, it's intentionally, okay But it is just prototype like maybe some time in the future. I start developing. I don't know just showing some of the rigging I Even rigged the but you know to make lay eggs Mostly I learned from Nathan Bechdel with the human rigging the watch my Yeah, this cover your friggin somehow These are for a video game in progress right now Which but the engine we are using is unity and I would like it to be a blender game And that's why I'm here now and this for a project for a university Which was also developing unity cool, so First I want to check on you and see how you are filling with these terms I do not free software right all of you You know what this means what it stands for and you're aware that blender is a free software, right? But how many of you? Wouldn't use blender if it wasn't so how many of you would use blender if it was for free, but not actually free software Like you don't care that it's free software, right? You just because it's cool Yeah, that's what I want to change or at least encourage you to think of it Yeah How many of you use also some of the free software in your workflow? Like game creature all this cool very nice Very nice. You know about free culture too, right? The culture works distributed with permacive licenses How many of you are using a free culture as a living or how many of you are doing with this awesome cool? Okay cool So first I want to apologize a bit because of the superficiality of some terms I'm going to talk I will not talk in depth about free software free culture I just want to talk about our role as blender community or our responsibility towards these movements First just a clear Free software means freedom not gratis. Sometimes. I accidentally say libre and what it means is this okay freedom in French or Spanish So the overview of the talk is these three three topics First I want to talk about my motivations of free culture then about our role as blender community and then about video games because that's what I do Okay, so my motivation for embracing free culture as an artist as a creator is Because I think it's the only way culture can really thrive and reach humanity It because it's it's not only aware of technology and technological progress, but also wants it The industry right now is making a huge effort to keep an absolute business model That is impeding culture to thrive by pursuing both creators and users who want to change the rules This process of course rules and capitalism which has clashed with new technologies since its beginnings and In every case in every case industry has seeded a bit and evolved chains But after deadly prosecutions and cultural damage Ultimately free culture philosophy is another cogwheel for the change in politics economy and social organization But chains don't combine themselves. We have to make them happen So let's shape our global culture with values that prioritize a long-term happy humanity over a short time in the interval benefit Or everything will explode So what's up with that with that in the blender community? What can we do? So as we know the blend foundation the blended Institute is very known for making these open projects, right? And we can find the educational liberties released under creative commons and other free culture licenses So why isn't that? Really on our on our side on the user side. Why not all of the users care about it? But blender being Libre This uses my thing. It's a matter of ethics philosophy that has nothing to do with using the software So I just use it because it's cool, but I don't care. They don't really they don't see the value added to it In contrast with proprietary software So the fact that this fact and the efforts that benefit foundation and blender Institute Are making with open source projects Shouldn't be ignored. We should be listening to them and seeing it as a viable way of earning your living We need to stop being mere users and become Activists we have to be activists in the military community because blender is making a huge effort And it's itself an activist way of change the industry or change in the world The blender community should be an army of activists who spread the philosophy behind free software Let's change the phrase that I hear sometime Then a school for a free program to then a school and free software It's a value not present in provided software as I said So I would recommend to anyone involved in this community to learn about big about this Richard Stallman Lawrence Lessie creative commons copy left remix culture anti copyright public domain Socialism because this is what blender is about If this is just too much for you, you don't want to save the world Where you can start from? Well, I don't know. I just give some advices or the feelings I have so in your next project experiment to use only free software Maybe give it a try to linux. It's not as hard as apple or Microsoft. I mean it. It is not hard Okay, really, I encourage you to do that just to try an experiment if you believe in these values and also distribute you work on their free culture license and Try to find Sustainable way to do it So I know how I know I didn't tell that I used Adobe and provide us for instance. I'm 13 years old, okay That's 13 years already. I know how hard is to break Adobe's heart But we have to free ourselves from the user lock-on they employ an ass They are not respecting us as humans. They just want our money or in cases that the service is free or for free They are we are the product and so all these terms that I want to get in depth But I'm sure you probably know that already So as the free software foundation says if the users don't come to the program is the program who controls the users So This means you're going to be poor. No, I don't want that. We don't have to be poor with these Maybe you guys some sacrifice, but at the end if you find new ways of financing work that are compatible free culture You would much happier We have crowdfunding. We have patreon. We have flutter public funding unique value Sorry, yeah, the unit value means if you are selling a physical object with that. It's unique It doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. It has a value a digital copy cost control C control V Wow a millionaire. Awesome. No, this is this morally wrong. We have to change that personalized value means as Tom was encouraging us all before that we teach people we are doing a personalized service to someone. That's as valuable as For donations because asking works if you want to sell something and you put the barrier with with a price You're enforcing people to pay if you just say look, I want to do this I want to do this for you and if you want you can give me something it works You can check Amanda Palmer tell talk about this. It's amazing So at the end follow blended foundation way of financing as a role model because we are part of it Be aware of your space time and embrace the possibilities of technology. There is no middle ground here I think either you are supporting this at the school by Don't caring or you're fighting against it or you're finding to change it. I mean I Engage your community and rise awareness about this if you're an educator Don't just teach the software teach its reasons to be its its values behind Yeah Free free so fs is free so whatever So after some sacrifice you will demonstrate that a new culture industry is possible Despite of the cup of the effort of capitalism to drain it. I'm also in this way I as I said a drug prototype software three years ago And I moved my workflow and tried to Linux and I'm just using free software And I'm finishing my studies, which means I will I will it will get the moment in which I confront financing for myself And I have to be ready. I'm just starting that too Maybe in two years or three years. I come here back and say I did it. Hopefully So what about video games in this? What do they have to do here? What do they matter to us as blender activists? Well interactive entertainment is the new media and it's one of the biggest cultural industries Independent game developers are changing it right now So it is our chance to engage them and help them shape the new rising industry according to these values Blender is already present in game development as a professional modeling and animation tool But then the game engine even though it's just one click away It's not that present. I think now is the moment to make it shine and to make developers think that you can do stuff with it Also games as software and as such they belong often Libre evolving and games this look at the game modding We've been modding games since ever and everyone is cool with that. They it's been enriching games and modding means changing a copyrighted work and Everyone now is saying okay, but it works you can modify them wherever unless you are in a free world So I don't have any solution. I just have some naive ideas. Okay. Let's start a reaction chain Let's make cool games that bring professional game developers that make cooler games that bring cometers to improve the engine So more game developers do even cooler games that bring feedback to improve the engine Sorry if you want to So we make this as I said the better Products we have out there that that really show how powerful better is the better these tools would become this already happened with animation I want this to happen with games Another idea for example the next brand of foundations open project should be a video game by the time Joe Frankie was out The video game industry was still looking down the indie developers But now they are individual person and mainstream like it's everything in the same plan you just go to steam or with any Game store and you see both Industry games and indie games and this is awesome. We just have to take this chance to to shed the industry For example, let's organize a global blender game jam How cool would this be the round rules of course is the use of blender game engine And the distribution of the games and the liberal license licenses just like the rest of games do It will spread its use bring developers cometers and feedback Okay, wrapping up Brenda is free software, but not not all of its users know what that means We have to be not only involved in its development, but become activists that share blender foundations cause Then they should feel free culture works that reshape the culture industry Let's create liberal works and live out of it But the game engine hasn't entered the jet in the video game industry as much as all the business features And it's now our chance to change the industry. Let's start our reaction chain Thank you. Good question. I Have one question for you all before is am I being too naive am I missing something? Are you with me on this? Yeah, what I'm an A Thanks question. I can show I wait time. I can show you also some of the stuff From this video if you want to see or I don't know this for some of what's inspired was inspired by Jacob Steiner. Jacob Steiner's developer is one of the artists interface designer of known and His trailers that he makes with Blemmer. So I just Take took his idea Any interest of this? No, you can discuss me later if you want Cool. I should discuss it later Because time is already over Thank you very much. I will ask that. Thank you on time Is here next speaker he runs so is here Dalai for Linto Dalai we need you