First up, I want to thank everyone who has made a contribution via the Sneak Peek Scene link or by sharing the link on Facebook and Twitter. You are helping us finish the movie!

Download key Blender Rigs from the Spiral Productions movie, Project London! Make a donation if you can. We’ll use the money to help finish the movie. And if you can’t make a donation, don’t worry about it! Download these rigs and put them to good use. Make your own movies with them. All we ask is that you respect the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. What does that mean? It means you can use these rigs in any project you want as long as you apply the same Creative Commons License to your work and give us credit for our contribution. That’s it. Have fun!

We’d like to see what you create. Please use the form below to send us a link. Thanks!

These Blender Rigs were created in version 2.4.8. Different models were created by different artists, so you will find varying methods of rigging at play for each file. All are ready for rendering and animation ‘right out of the box’, but please feel free to reverse engineer and learn to your heart’s content!

Download Links:

Arizona

Modeled by: Ian Hubert
Rigged by: Nathan Vegdahl

Goose

Modeled by: Dolf Veenvliet
Rigged by: Dolf Veenvliet

Paddywagon

Modeled by: Dolf Veenvliet
Rigged by: Dolf Veenvliet

Red Exosuit

Modeled by: Nathan Taylor
Rigged by: Nathan Taylor

Tankbot

Modeled by: Nathan Taylor
Rigged by: Nathan Taylor

Joint Command Tower

Modeled by: Ian Hubert
Rigged by: Ian Hubert

But Wait! There’s More!

Paul Spooner’s Blender Rigs for Project London are now available!

Compatibility Info

One of the great things about Blender is that it’s always changing, updating, and improving. A downside to this is that we can’t guarantee that these rigs will forever be compatible with every future version of Blender! While we don’t forsee a necessity, should the need ever arise, old versions of Blender are available here: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/older-versions/.

Project London Blender Rigs: Arizona, Goose, Paddywagon, Red Exosuit, Tankbot, and Joint Command Tower by Spiral Productions LLC are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Spiral Productions is pleased to present the Official Project London Trailer. Project London is an independently produced, science-fiction, action-adventure, effects movie. Made by Volunteers! Almost no Budget! Blender open-source 3D Software used to create animated elements! 774 Visual Effects!

We are a band of indie-minded raconteurs and entrepreneurs feverishly devoted to producing brilliant visual effects who also wrangle volunteers and chickens. We are:

IAN HUBERT

Director, writer, VFX samurai, manic creative triple threat wünderkind, and all-around good guy

Ian learned filmmaking by making films. In the 4^th grade, he adopted an old Japanese camcorder and started playing with CG effects and movies. By the time he reached high school, he was making a feature-length film every year. The series SBFP he shot with friend Steve Bylsma was how Phil discovered him. After he graduated from high school in 2006, he started working on a script for a no-budget sci-fi flick Phil promised to produce.

His second summer job in August 2007 was shooting a feature-length film with the working title, Project London. Pre-production and production lasted only a few short months, but finishing the 650 visual effects shots has taken a couple of years, 24 or so different volunteers, and much love from the Blender community.

Ian learned the open source software, Blender, in high school, after being inspired by Colin Levy’s work involving a giant, four-legged robot.

Ian met Phil in 2004 when he was a sophomore in high school. Read his tale and an interview with jawbone.tv here.

NATHAN McCOY

Executive Producer, location manager, volunteer recruiter, Lead Chicken Wrangler & Coffee Provider, and tech exec at a little company called Microsoft

Nate has been a technology lover and sci-fi fan since his arrival on Earth. Well, at least since the Apollo 11 moon landing. He has devoured all of the film classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, and others in the same vein.

His producer prep began by assisting older bro, Phil, with the backyard magic show. He invented (er, discovered) the Internet some time later and accurately predicted that it was kind of a big deal. He wrote an ecommerce website or two (while he was visiting the future), stuck his big toes into online advertising, and now manages a large software development team at a Fortune 100 company (kind of a big deal).

He’s a piano player and rock band alum. The ‘80s were a blur of school, career, rock ‘n’ roll, and computers. Somehow, he survived.

Nate asked Phil about helping with the movie, and the rest is history. Read about the Phone Call of Destiny here.

PHIL McCOY

Executive Producer, mastermind, filmmaker, owner of Spiral Productions LLC, Head Visionary, and distribution revolutionary

Phil has been in showbiz since he started producing neighborhood magic shows in elementary school. By middle school, he’d borrowed an 8mm camera and shot his first film, Tom Schwartz Tree Surgeon, with friends Bill Fisher and Jack Rogers.

Next, he joined the “real” world and got a day job as a broadcast producer at an ad agency where he wrote, produced, and directed a multitude of radio and TV commercials. He collected some awards along the way – a Telly and a variety of other industry awards for media excellence. Clio, Grammy, Emmy, Tony and Oscar are on his list of to-gets.

In 1984, he launched PM Productions to work on independent and freelance projects. In 2007, he closed it and started Spiral Productions LCC to produce Project London.

He met Ian in 2004. Read the whole, fateful story here.

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Copywriter: Charla Grenz Solheim
Photography: Marc Studer

NEBRASKA HIGGINS | Josh Truax

Self-reliant and more introspective than any moped-riding protagonist has any right to be, Nebraska Higgins (son of Arizona Higgins) goes through life doing more or less what he’s told. He works as a mechanic at the local Joint Command tower, and frequently babysits his friend’s brother. More ‘flight’ than ‘fight’, Nebraska never gave much thought to the London Underground’s shenanigans.

ARIZONA HIGGINS | Michael Donovan

As enigmatic as he is charismatic, Arizona is the leader of the London Underground. He controls the only giant robotic exo-suit not owned by Joint Command, and as such is the only one who can stand in the way of their near-omnipotent will. Some say he’s old enough to have been born back on the Nalardian home world, while others say he’s just a family man, trying to do what he thinks is right in a world gone topsy-turvy. He started the London Underground with Jerry a few years back, and they’ve been gaining members ever since.

XING XING FIX | Jen Page

Young and enthusiastic (and with striking blue hair), Xing Xing is in charge of all London Underground communications. She spends many of her waking hours communicating with London Underground cells in other cities, and creating anti-Joint Command propaganda. She provides the London Underground with much of it’s heart, as everyone has a tendency to get a bit TOTALLY INTENSE ALL THE TIME.

BENIN BELABORA | Geoffery Simmons

An intense, muscular, new recruit to the London Underground, Benin used to be the Lead Investigator for the Joint Command, until his investigations lead him to discover the altruistic truth behind the London Underground’s actions—at which point he quit Joint Command and became Arizona’s second in command. He has a good head for strategy, and a better head for being intense at all possible moments.

JERRY | Branson Anderson

Wrapped in leather and cloth from head to toe, Jerry is the fearsome muscle behind the London Underground leadership. He’s incredibly strong and quick, throwing himself into fights with reckless abandon and physical indifference. Truly a force to be reckoned with! He’s never been heard to speak from behind his ever-present gas mask, but many have reported that he has a possible kindheartedness beneath his fierce exterior. Also, his gun is massive.

CHICAGO | John Fantasia

Appointed Joint Command’s Minister of Defense in the late twentieth century, Chicago has become the face of Joint Command’s global dominance. Never lingering long in one place, Chicago is constantly moving around the world in his massive airborne defense fleet. Legendary for his interrogation tactics and all-or-nothing battle strategies, nothing changes the status-quo like having Chicago enter the scene.

DOMINIK and NIKOLA | Justin Tracy and

Andrew David Evans

Dominik and Nikola are a Joint Command team of Investigators, specially trained to track down and detain particularly elusive criminals. Their current subject of investigation is the London Underground, and they’re ever closer on the trail. Dominik grew up in the Joint Command training system, and this is his first major case after being quickly promoted by Chicago himself to fill the hole left by Benin Belabora after his dramatic departure from Joint Command. He’s also trying to show the ropes to rookie Nikola, whose lack of experience is more than made up for in enthusiasm.

CANADA | Henry Mark

A Nalardian living in the old city under Pioneer Square, Canada is a wearer of many hats. He serves first and foremost as an apothecary, selling a wide variety of supplements to Nalardians and humans alike, but also dabbles in the darker sciences. A known London Underground sympathizer, he frequently chronicles their adventures in amateur film-reels. If there’s one man who knows the whole story, it’s Canada.

THE RICHARDS | Wayne Bastrup and Jeannine Clarke

The Richards are an eclectic duo who live in the outer reaches of Woodinville. They’re good friends of the London Underground, but generally stay on the sidelines, preferring rummage sales to fighting the evil superpowers. Their home often serves as a safe house and a place to regroup and debrief after a London Underground Cell runs a mission.

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Copywriter: Ian Hubert
Photography: Marc Studer, except photo of Michael Donovan by Ian Hubert