Emergent Complexity. When something becomes complex enough, it may become conscious. The junkyard comes alive and walks into the forest.
The project will be modelled, animated, rendered and edited in Blender. We'll be using Blender 2.5, even though it is still very much WIP, and there are changes (fixes, breaks) daily.
We'll be utilising http://www.renderfarm.fi for as much rendering services as possible: tests, environment fly throughs, animatics and of course the final renders. http://www.wuala.com/the_romuttamo is used for our repository.
Finnish Blender users are welcome in #blender.fi on the Freenode network. For this animation, there's also #romuttamo on Freenode.
Editing will most likely be done on some local machines, as it wouldn't make too much sense to put that on renderfarm.fi
As a guide when working on models etc, use 1BU=1m.
Final license will be announced later.