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Victorious Children Studio Organizer ( VCStudio )
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Blender-Organizer
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.
Features
Installation
For the installation please watch the installation guide.
Or read the wiki page.
Windows?
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 for more information.
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.
Credits and Thanks
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.
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (also known as RMS or simply Richard Stallman. Wikipedia. ) 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 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.
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.
In order to stop this from happening we need to use Free Software.
Richard Stallman is the father of the Free Software movement and the GNU Operaring System. ( Usually known as Linux. Or GNU / Linux. )
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.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds is an important figure in the GNU / Linux and Free Software ( Open Source ) world. His contribution is a the Linux part of the GNU / Linux operating system.
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.
To see more about the Linux kernel you can look at linuxfoundation.org
Ton Roosendaal
Ton Roosendall is the MDL of Blender. 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.
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.
Since then Blender grew to the largest animation / modeling / video editing / visual effects tool that you can find.
J.Y.Amihud
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.
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.
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.
Since then Blender-Organizer had a few itterations. And now it is called VCStudio.
Call J.Y.Amihud (Jitsi) 
Report Bug (Issues)
Others
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.
Movies Done with VCStudio (or Blender-Organizer)
I'm Not Even Human. Released in 2018. Directed by J.Y.Amihud.
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.
Moria's Race. (Work In Progress). A short animated action film.
Telegram Group, 
Lore (LBRY), 
Lore (Raw File)
Reasons to Re-do Blender-Organizer
The old Blender Organizer was using an outdated Python2 for the entire system.
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.
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.
Blender Organizer still lives.
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).
What is "VC" in VCStudio?
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. 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.
Support
If you want to support this project monetarily there are going to be a few ways. For now the only way that will let myself use will be cryptocurrencies. Soon maybe if I figure it out I will open a GNU Taler instance as well.
LBRY credits ( LBC ) bKCnL5QpSofJaDtXPHkHZ89UEN4CcdVADk
VCStudio and Blender-Organizer are free-software packages for organizing animated project. Primarily to work with Blender3D. It's written in python 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 GPLv3 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, The Package, The Car & The Time Is Running Out and Moria's Race.