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Snowblind is a new ‘spaghetti western’ film available for free on YouTube and RapidShare in HD and 3D, and available for purchase on BluRay.

SNOWBLIND is true film making 2.0: Community-powered, fan-based, graphic-novel grindhousy goodness… Shot on our own money and post-produced in endless hours of unpaid work. What else to do but share it with the world for free now – because in our present, yesterday meets tomorrow and spaghetti western goes digital!

Indie online film is getting big, with Snowblind, Sintel, and more coming out in rapid succession.

Snowblind Movie.

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Computers in China are a rapidly growing industry, in particular due to the recent involvement of the chinese government into “modernizing” the populace.  While the regime in control might be oppressive, artists and animators aren’t letting that get in their way, as evidenced by the five great indie animations selected by NeochaEdge.

Below are 5 of our favorite indie animations from 2009. Even if you can’t understand Chinese, you’ll enjoy the visual feast. (A special acknowledgment must go out to Plidezus — founder of AnimeTaste and contributor to NeochaEDGE– who as a leading independent animation expert in China has turned us on to many of these throughout 2009).

See the five videos at their site.

via NeochaEDGE: Top 5 Chinese indie animations of 2009 – Shanghaiist.

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Feeling the heat from the recent free releases of the Unreal3 and Unity engines, Havok has decided to roll out their own “Indie Developer Programme”, however it’s a bit difficult to determine what exactly they are calling an “indie” developer.

Designed to enable independent game studios to execute their creative visions using Havok’s premium, developer-preferred middleware technology, the Independent Developer Program helps studios minimize the overall risk and high cost associated with internal creation of the tools and technologies required to power today’s sophisticated video and PC games. Krome Studios is the first to license Havok tools and technology under the Independent Developer Program.

In the press release they make reference to Krome Studios as an independent developer, however with their recent work with LucasArts game “Star Wars the Clone Wars: Republic Heroes”, a 400 person staff and classification as the largest software developer in Australia, I’m not so sure that’s indie.

Press Release via Havok Reveals Indie Developer Programme | Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

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