FreeJack: Odd Job Jack and Creative Commons

John Martz | July 24th, 2006

In a world where even the slightest hint of copyright violation brings out the lawyers, this is a refreshing twist… The creators of the Canadian animated series Odd Job Jack are releasing the master Flash files and bitmaps of every piece of art used in this season of the show: every character, prop, and background from every episode plus tutorials and other support material, all free to hack, use, remix under a share-friendly license.

The first episode’s torrent is 800 megs. (Download)

They are releasing 1 per week for 13 weeks. You can find out more and browse the assets at FreeJack.

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  • shawn
    way cool. i'm doing pre-production work on a flash series right now and this will be invaluable just so i can see how things are done. amazing.
  • angus
    holy shit! my gawd, I am so thrilled at this! let it all be free!
  • i love this idea - but im having troubles ...

    the page at pirate bay says its been downloaded zero times. there are no "seeds" according to bit torrent.

    anybody know how to get around this ?

    dany
    www.robertvalley.blogspot.com
  • john
    I was excited enough about this opportunity to finally try the whole bit torrent thing, but Azureus, the program I downloaded won't accept these files. Aargh!
  • The torrent is doing well today. Odd job jack will be seeding it throughout the entire 13 week run of the new seriese.

    http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3506503
  • jaymeebuoy
    Matt Groening can eat a protein bar from my ass! I'm going solo!
  • That is absolutely great...if only more animators were this open and understanding of the give and take aspects of media. More power to them!
  • john
    I was able to get it the second time around. What a treasure trove this is. I am so grateful for this, you have no idea! I'm tearing up over here...
  • i got all of the files finally (it took several tries). the only downside to it all is that i can not locate the master file that controls the elements (if it is included at all). yes, having all of the visual parts is a great resource but i would much rather have the master control FLA file and the audio to go with it.

    hopefully the next download will have that included in the torrent.
  • Torrent for episode 302 is now up and seeding with a very high speed connection:
    http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-e...

    The master control file(s) will not be included. This is because of lots of things. The biggest hurdles are that we don't own the internet rights to the vocal performances and our rendering system is very complex and can't be reproduced outside of our lan.
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