LILA is a non-profit organization, under French law 1901, declared and funded in 2005.
We promote Arts and Artists, as well as access to technics and knowledge for everyone.
The association has its headquarters at 7 bis, rue Saint Hilaire
in Poitiers. If you like what we do, do not hesitate to send
postcards or other nice mail! 🤗
In a few days, we'll leave for Canada where we will be part of Libre Graphics
Meeting, and in particular where we will present ZeMarmot in Toronto
University. Well Wilber as well is getting ready… in his own way!
If you are Canadian, don't mind the joke. We just searched for articles on
the web about Canadian English slang. Hopefully we got it right! :-)
This comic strip is released under Creative Commons BY-SA, drawn by Aryeom on an idea of
Jehan, originally published in GIMP Magazine n°11.
Wilber is the mascot of the GIMP project, and GNU the one of the identically-named Operating System,
spearhead of the Free Software Foundation.
Our animation film
won't have any dialog. Alternatively we are thinking into giving a nice place to
music.
Hence the association LILA is looking for musicians and composers.
We are looking for people excited by Libre Licenses (Creative Commons by-sa and
Art Libre in particular), who could compose and play an original soundtrack. It
does not have to be for the whole movie, since we may have several artists. So it
could be just 1 or 2 songs too.
Make sure before submitting that you are allowed to publish your work in
Creative Commons licenses. I am not sure how it is out of France, but here
musicians who subscribe to the national association collecting copyright payments
(SACEM)
are not allowed to publish their work in any Libre licenses (not entirely true, they are actually
allowed to use "Non Commercial (NC)" Creative Commons licenses only, as a current test pilot experiment).
This is very sad, and limits grandly our research for musicians here!
This is not a call to work for free. The goal is to pay for the music
(composers, musicians) the fair amount for their work, once we get the
required funding. If we ever failed our crowdfunding (knock on wood), we just won't
do, or differently.
But we want to find interested and interesting musicians before our crowdfunding
ideally, which will probably help this funding (thus giving us the ability to
make a paid contract for them!).
The musical style is not fully defined. We are planning on working with the
musicians and see what they propose us. Of course though, you can see the graphical
style, so no need to
propose hard rock or techno music (well unless the band also play other
styles).
On the other hand, rock, blues, jazz… why not? But since we are talking about
travels and wanderings, we would be very interested by more "ethnic" and local music
from the world. We prefer to keep the description "wide" for now and see what is
proposed to us. :-)
You have a band and are interested? You know bands which would do very well with our movie?
Don't hesitate to contact us to sell your
service, or send us the name of bands you know and fit well the profile we are
looking for.
We will listen what you/they do, and hopefully this could end up in collaborating with us. :-)
The Libre Graphics Meeting's program has recently been confirmed.
Our talk titled "Project of a 2D Libre Movie: ZeMarmot" will happen on May 2, at
the University of Toronto.
The talk details are:
Studio Girin will present a 2D short animation project in progress (working
title “ZeMarmot”), which is going to raise funds through crowdfunding.
The animation film will be produced entirely with Free Software, and will be
ultimately released under a Libre license.
Synopsis summary:
« A Marmot lives a quiet life in Alps mountains. His main activities? Sleep,
eat and sleep again. When a migrating bird tells him of the world's wonders,
beyond the mountains, the rodents goes for an impromptu world tour. What
will happen? Will the Marmot ever come back? »
Aryeom is a young South Korean independant animation film director and
animation artists. Her first co-directed short animation, “Grandma Ocean”
got screened in more than a dozen festivals and won 2 prices. She is now an
artist in residency in the association LILA in Paris, and is trying to
create her own animation studio, Studio Girin. Also she is an awesome user
of GIMP.
Jehan has been an actor as a young kid for a dozen of years, especially for
movie dubbings, and also won an “Outstanding Youth Actor in a Foreign Film”
award. Nowadays he spends time as a software developer (among others for
GIMP…), and he spent a few years traveling the world alone on a motorcycle
(in particular from France to Japan), then he traveled with Aryeom. Their
travels are inspirational of ZeMarmot's story.
If you happen to be in Toronto that day, come and see us! :-)
