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# Victorious Children Studio Organizer ( VCStudio )
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Languages:
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- [English](README.md)
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- [Русский](README_Russian.md)
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Content:
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- [Blender-Organizer](#blender-organizer)
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- [Features](#features)
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- [Installation](#installation)
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- [Windows?](#windows)
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- [Credits and Thanks](#credits-and-thanks)
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- [Richard Stallman](#richard-stallman)
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- [Linus Torvalds](#linus-torvalds)
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- [Ton Roosendaal](#ton-roosendaal)
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- [J.Y.Amihud](#jyamihud)
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- [Others](#others)
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- [Movies Done with VCStudio (or Blender-Organizer)](#movies-done-with-vcstudio-or-blender-organizer)
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- [Reasons to Re-do Blender-Organizer](#reasons-to-re-do-blender-organizer)
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- [Blender Organizer still lives](#blender-organizer-still-lives)
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- [What is "VC" in VCStudio?](#what-is-vc-in-vcstudio)
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- [Help and Support](#help-and-support)
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- [Help Free Software](#help-free-software)
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- [Report bugs and give suggestions](#report-bugs-and-give-suggestions)
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- [Contribute code](#contribute-code)
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- [Translations and Documentations](#translations-and-documentations)
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- [Make Tutorials](#make-tutorials)
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- [Support with Money](#support-with-money)
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# Blender-Organizer
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VCStudio or Blender-Organizer is a program that helps you make movies easier. Forget about creating folders and subfolders for assets. And forget about being confused with the story and it's plot-holes. Now it's easier then ever to make movies.
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[](https://open.lbry.com/@blender-organizer:5/overview0000-6433:7?r=7YADjAZEbHJg8n4qV5rAuBh5Hca7cZQK)
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 *Click on the image to view in LBRY* or  [Download Video](https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v4/streams/free/overview0000-6433/746112984508265add695abe1c9719e7efee5d6e/2bf97d)
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# Features
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[](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/wiki/Documenation+%7C+Project+Manager+%7C+Version+20.128)
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[](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/wiki/Documenation+%7C+Story+Editor+%7C+Version+20.128+)
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[](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/wiki/Documenation+%7C+Assets+%7C+Version+20.128)
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[](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/wiki/Documenation+%7C+Analytics+%7C+Version+20.128)
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[](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/wiki/Documenation+%7C+Multiuser+%7C+Version+21.1)
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*To edit those images see [source files](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/update_manager/src/master/vcstudio/promotions/sources).*
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# Installation
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For the installation please watch the installation guide.
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[](https://open.lbry.com/@blender-organizer:5/rnd0001-4061:1?r=7YADjAZEbHJg8n4qV5rAuBh5Hca7cZQK)
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 *Click on the image to view in LBRY* or  [Download Video](https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v4/streams/free/rnd0001-4061/1f56bef7a754d6be38ea78d5ef0b6bb17952f517/ffd973)
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Or read the [wiki page.](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/wiki/Documenation+%7C+Installation+%7C+Version+20.128)
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# Windows?
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**VCStudio** is a **Free Software**. People mis-represent projects like this by calling them "Open Source". Open Source simply means that the source code is available. While **Free Software** means that the users have the 4 essential freedoms of software. **Freedom 0**: To use the software at any time for any purpose. **Freedom 1**: To study and change the source code. **Freedom 2:** To redistribute the software. **Freedom 3**: To distribute modified versions of the software. See [www.fsf.org](https://www.fsf.org/) for more information.
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**We are developing and ecouraging VCStudio to run on only Free Operating System called GNU / Linux. System like Windows is not supported by default. And we do not condone any use of Windows. Or other non-free programs.**
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[](https://www.fsf.org/windows)
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# Credits and Thanks
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There are people way more imporatng them I am in making this possible. I just made the last part. Making these few scripts. Those other people might not even know about me, or this projects. But their contribution is still worth giving the credit.
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## Richard Stallman
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 [Richard Matthew Stallman](https://stallman.org/) (also known as RMS or simply Richard Stallman. [Wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman) ) is an infuential figure in making VCStudio possible. The amount of mistreatment happening in the world in mind boggling. Vodka companies and Drug Lords making millions of dollars while selling poision to addicted prey. When people demand respect they manufacture it disguising the poison under some kind of artificial lie. Like "*Let's drink for life.*". Software companies are doing the same. And people are not understanding the impact because the poison is not as clear as with some other products. [Malware](https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html) is a big problem. But even bigger problem lies that tech companies are trying to outsmart people. When you bought something you had an access to fix it. Apple is taking it away from you by designing the products that refuse to work when you try to swap parts. And they are manufacturing exuses such as "*It's for your protection.*" that many people buy.
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Software companies do that same thing by refusing people access to means of doing things to their copies of the software. Making restricted licenses. Not releasing the source-code. Demanding outreagious end user agreements. Developing Digital Restriction Managment systems. And other evil things. Making their users addicted so they could not use anything but their poison software.
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In order to stop this from happening we need to use Free Software.
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Richard Stallman is the father of the [Free Software movement](https://www.fsf.org/) and the [GNU Operaring System](https://www.gnu.org). ( Usually known as Linux. Or GNU / Linux. )
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Without Richard Stallman there would be mistreatment of users. Also the operating system and the license that I'm using to publish this would not exist. So therefor I credit him in this project as well. This project tries very hard to be as Free and as Respecting as it possibly can. I might not succeed 100%. Maybe because I'm stupid. But thanks to Richard I at least try.
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## Linus Torvalds
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 [Linus Benedict Torvalds](https://github.com/torvalds) is an important figure in the GNU / Linux and Free Software ( [Open Source](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html) ) world. His contribution is a the Linux part of the [GNU / Linux operating system](https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html).
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His contribution is important since his program "Linux" is the most important part of an operating system called the kernel. The kernel manages all the other programs. It's the program that translates anything between programs like Blender or VCStudio to stuff like CPU and Grpahics Card. But there are programs in between those users are using and the linux kernel. Stuff like the Window Manager (Gnome, KDE), Graphics Engine (OpenGL, Vulkan), Sound Engine (Jack, ALSA) and other minor programs. All running on top of linux but are not the part of linux. They are parts of GNU. And together it's GNU / Linux.
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To see more about the Linux kernel you can look at [linuxfoundation.org](https://linuxfoundation.org/)
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## Ton Roosendaal
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 [Ton Roosendall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Roosendaal) is the MDL of [Blender](https://www.blender.org/). In the 80s and 90s Ton was working on 3D animation using their own peace of software called Traces (a ray trace Renderer). In the company called NeoGeo founded by Ton in 1989. Later they decided to put together an animation / modeling tool based on the interface of Traces. Combined product became Blender.
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On 13 October 2002 Blender was released to the public under the GNU GPL license. Making it officially Free Software. And thus opening it's features to be used in the ethical world of Free Software.
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Since then Blender grew to the largest animation / modeling / video editing / visual effects tool that you can find.
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## Others
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There are countless people that I cannot possibly know the full list of that contributed to Free Software projects that in some direct or indirect way influence development of this or that project. And I wish to be able to credit all of them. Maybe such a work is done somewhere. But I think the sheer number of people would be quite monumental. Anyway thank you all for your contributions.
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## J.Y.Amihud
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 Jeison Yehuda Amihud (Blender Dumbass) is the developer of Blender-Organizer. Or VCStudio. A minor thing compared to the monumental job that is done by others.
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In 2016 during making of the movie "I'm Not Even Human" J.Y. faced a problem of organization. Large projects with multiple people usually have a producer or managers that do all the organizational work. In this project tho. There was only J.Y.Amihud for the entire thing. And something needed to be done.
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The solution was to write a program that will do most of the job for you. Instead of making folders and subfolders for each character and it's textures, references and renders. You just add the character and it does everything for you. The program also solved the problem of knowing how much is done. So J.Y.Amihud could estimate the time of the release. The movie was finished a month before the released date that was annouced half a year before the movie was done. So the program works.
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Since then Blender-Organizer had a few itterations. And now it is called VCStudio.
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 [Call J.Y.Amihud (Jitsi)](https://meet.jit.si/VCStudioDevelopmentConference)  [Report Bug (Issues)](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/issues/new)
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# Movies Done with VCStudio (or Blender-Organizer)
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I'm Not Even Human. Released in 2018. Directed by J.Y.Amihud.
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 [LBRY](https://lbry.tv/@VCS:7/Imnotevenhumanshortfilm:3), [Raw File (1.3 GB)](https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v4/streams/free/Imnotevenhumanshortfilm/3aec1f719f3a8249830f6917db0bb1b7f5e476ab/cd344e)
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The Package, The Car & The Time Is Running Out. A shot, shot film. Made as a kind of VFX test. But contains a small story.
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 [LBRY](https://lbry.tv/@VCS:7/ThePackageTheCarAndTheTimeIsRunningOut:3),  [Raw File (104 MB)](https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v4/streams/free/ThePackageTheCarAndTheTimeIsRunningOut/38c9f4cb1223c64ebf93e2c7183783d19040f1bd/346fd5)
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Moria's Race. (Work In Progress). A short animated action film.
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 [Telegram Group](https://t.me/moriasrace),  [Lore (LBRY)](https://lbry.tv/@BlenderDumbass:c/dune-town-lore-moria-s-race-63:f),  [Lore (Raw File)](https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v4/streams/free/dune-town-lore-moria-s-race-63/f596ca59ea95b8406e02df4713e3532edd0b03d1/f070ad)
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*If you want to add your own film into here. Be free to contact me. There is a call button above. But make sure you are using Free Software to make it. I might make a Free Software usage meter for movies. That could be cool.*
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# Reasons to Re-do Blender-Organizer
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The old Blender Organizer was using an outdated Python2 for the entire system.
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It became such a hard thing to make work on a new system. Since Python2 is not longer supported by most destributions. And so the decision was made in 2020 to move to Python3. The problem was that the `gtk` module of `python2` is similar but not the same as `Gtk3` that comes with `python3`. And so a complite rewrite of the blender organizer is nessesary.
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The Blender Organizer also had some questionable desing elements that made it hard to implement new feratures and settings without clusterring the project folder. And also it had a wierd way of handinling multiple projects.
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# Blender Organizer still lives.
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I think for most people who are Using the Blender Organizer. To switch to an untested new project would be a terrible thing. This is why I'm not using the Blender Organizer repository for the rewrite, but instead choosing to create this new one. Which gonna go away from being named after Blender but more after the little studio title we have for our animation project. VCS (Victorious, Children, Studio).
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# What is "VC" in VCStudio?
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VC stands for **Victorious Children**. VCStudio is an organizer tool for Victorious Children Studio. A little organization that makes movies and other content using [free software.](https://www.fsf.org/) Victorious Children's goal is to promote **#RespectChildren**. The idea that children should be treated equally to adults. In the older content of **VCS** you can find the name "Violence Children Studio" which is the old name of the organizanization.
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# Help and Support
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If you want to contibute your own help to the project you can do that in many different ways. Let's talk about a few of them.
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## Help Free Software
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Free Software needs your help. To help you can do many things. Such as contributing code. Or simply refusing to use non-free software. The more people will use only Free Software that less non-free software will be produced. See [this page](https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html) for more information of how you can contribute.
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## Report bugs and give suggestions
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I can't make a good peace of software if the only person who uses it is myself. I know people already using it appart from me. I don't know the exact number. Because I do not make any analytics like that. It appears to be not too ethical.
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If you have any problem or suggestion to the VCStudio. You can either:
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 [Call me (Jitsi, no login required)](https://meet.jit.si/VCStudioDevelopmentConference) or  [Report Bug (Issues, login to NotABug)](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/issues/new)
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## Contribute code
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If you want to do things with VCStudio and you are a python programer you can contribute to the software directly. Or by forking it and making your own VCStudio.
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## Translations and Documentations
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If you are not a programer you can contribute to VCStudio by writing text. Or by translating text to your language. There is the [language packs](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio/src/master/settings/languages) files that you can contribute. Also you can write Documenations in [Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/) format to publish them here.
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## Make Tutorials
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If you have an LBRY channel or a YouTube channel. Or you post on any other platform. Please do tutorials for VCStudio. One thing I would ask you is provide a download link to the files. With LBRY you can do that. YouTube fights against peoples ability to get copies of the videos. There was a story about using DMCA agains youtube-dl program covered by Gardner Bryant.
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Source:  [LBRY](https://lbry.tv/@TheLinuxGamer:f/gb-youtube-dl:7),  [Direct Video Link](https://cdn.lbryplayer.xyz/api/v4/streams/free/gb-youtube-dl/7409a1fb4e3a18df796628ec976d475a740300f7/476317)
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## Support with Money
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### Support Free Software Foundation
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I'm not the most important person in this project. As stated above in the [Credits and Thanks](#credits-and-thanks) paragraph. So I want to direct your finances first of all to them. Then to me. We are going to start with the Free Software Foundation.
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See: [Ways to donate to the FSF](https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate/) for information. They exaplain it in details.
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### Support The Linux Foundation
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As you know the most important part is the kernel. Ans so the development and maintanace of the kernel tho possible by individuals. With the current size of the code base you need an entire organization.
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See: [The Linux Foundation](https://linuxfoundation.org/) for information.
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### Support Blender Foundation
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This project is heavily based on Blender. The old name "Blender-Organizer" makes it clear. In order to help for thousands and millions or artists we need to keep Blender alive.
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See: [Blender's "Get Involved" page](https://www.blender.org/get-involved/) for more inforamtion.
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### Help contributers to this project
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**For Contributers:** *If you contribute. Please let me know about your links. The easiest way is to open an LBRY account and give me the code of your wallet. And I will post your nickname, contribution and the code here. Please do not use systems that require running a non-free program. More about this issue [here](https://stallman.org/patreon.html).*
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### Help me directly
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If you want to support me with money there are going to be a few ways. For now the only way that I will let myself use will be crypto-currencies. Soon maybe if I figure it out I will open a [GNU Taler](https://taler.net/en/) instance as well.
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 LBRY credits ( LBC ) `bKCnL5QpSofJaDtXPHkHZ89UEN4CcdVADk`
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**Note:** *this way you support me. Not the other contributers. They may or may not will give their own support information.*
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[VCStudio](https://notabug.org/jyamihud/VCStudio) and [Blender-Organizer](https://github.com/JYamihud/blender-organizer) are [free-software](https://www.fsf.org/) packages for organizing animated project. Primarily to work with [Blender3D](https://www.blender.org/). It's written in [python](https://www.python.org/) and distributed as a set of scripts. So in theory with little work you can make it run on any OS. It's licensed with a [GNU](https://www.gnu.org/) [GPLv3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html) license. Primarily developer of the project (2018 - 2020) is J.Y.Amihud (also known as Blender Dumbass). Some projects done with this software may include [I'm Not Even Human](https://open.lbry.com/@VCS:7/Imnotevenhumanshortfilm:3?r=GLhXoQ3zcpvm6rzd9Z6dAyasTpmk1FUY), [The Package, The Car & The Time Is Running Out](https://open.lbry.com/@VCS:7/ThePackageTheCarAndTheTimeIsRunningOut:3?r=GLhXoQ3zcpvm6rzd9Z6dAyasTpmk1FUY) and [Moria's Race](https://t.me/moriasrace). |