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

Etymology

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

Plot

The films center on Koro the llama 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

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

• 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. Hjalti Hjalmarsson, Andy Goralczyk and Sergey Sharybin joined the production team for the second film.

Awards

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.

Gallery

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

References

1. More precisely, Koro is a "chulengo", a young guanaco, which is the wild counterpart to the llama.

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. ^ "About", caminandes.com. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
3. ^ "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.

External links

• Official website
• Caminandes: Llama Drama at IMDb 
• Caminandes: Gran Dillama at IMDb 
• The short film Caminandes 1: Llama Drama is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
• The short film Caminandes 2: Gran Dillama is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
• The short film Caminandes 3: Llamigos is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.

• Blender Foundation
• Computer-animated short films
• Creative Commons-licensed films
• Open content short films
• Animated films about llamas