Caminandes

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Caminandes (1, 2 & 3)
Directed byPablo Vazquez
Produced byBlender Foundation
CountryNetherlands
Promotional image for Llama Drama showing Koro in front of a desolate road.
Promotional image for Gran Dillama showing Koro behind an electrical fence.
Promotional image for Llamigos showing Koro and Oti in a minecart.

Caminandes is an independently produced series of animated short films created by Pablo Vazquez (was born in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina[1]), produced and released by the Blender Foundation.[2][3]

Etymology

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The title "Caminandes" is a portmanteau of the Spanish word "caminar" ("to walk") and Andes, the longest continental mountain range in the world.[2] The subtitles of episodes 2 and 3 are also portmanteaus of various Spanish words.

Plot

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The films center on Koro the llama[a] and his attempts to overcome various obstacles in Patagonia.

Caminandes 1: Llama Drama (2013)

Koro has trouble crossing an apparent desolate road, a problem that an unwitting Armadillo does not share.

Caminandes 2: Gran Dillama (2013)

Koro hunts for food on the other side of a fence and is once again inspired by the Armadillo but this time to a shocking effect.

Caminandes 3: Llamigos (2016)

Koro meets Oti, a pesky magellanic penguin, in an epic battle over tasty red berries during the winter.

Production

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Blender Foundation Amsterdam team in September 2020, some of which were involved in the Caminandes series.

The films, inspired by the cartoons of Chuck Jones,[5] are created using FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) such as[2]

  • Blender, a professional free and open-source 3D computer graphics software
  • GIMP, a free and open-source raster graphics editor
  • Krita, a free and open-source raster graphics editor based on Qt 5 and the KDE Frameworks 5
  • Linux, a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution

The first film was produced by Pablo Vazquez, Beorn Leonard and Francesco Siddi with a soundtrack by Jan Morgenstern.[2] Hjalti Hjalmarsson, Andy Goralczyk and Sergey Sharybin joined the production team for the second film.[3]

Awards

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Jan Morgenstern won the 2014 Jerry Goldsmith award for "Best Score for an Animated Short Film" at the International Film Music Festival in Córdoba, Spain, for Gran Dillama.[6][7]

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  • Caminandes 1: Llama Drama (2013)
  • Caminandes 2: Gran Dillama (2013)
  • Caminandes 3: Llamigos (2016)

References

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  1. ^ More precisely, Koro is a "chulengo", a young guanaco, which is the wild counterpart to the llama.[4]
  1. ^ Es patagónico y triunfa en el mundo creando cortos animados. Archived 2019-07-03 at the Wayback Machine Eqsnotas.com 16/10/2017
  2. ^ a b c d "About", caminandes.com. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Open Movie Project announcement", caminandes.com, 30 September 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Caminandes Team - Caminandes Ep. 2 Production" (at 2 min 7 sec), Blender channel on YouTube, 29 October 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Caminandes: Gran Dillama", blender.org, 11 September 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  6. ^ "IX Jerry Goldsmith Award!", caminandes.com, 6 August 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Category Archives: Ganadores / Winners", Jerry Goldsmith Awards webpage at the Internet Archive, 24 July 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
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