Software Containers Animation (ARDC)

'How Can Software Containers Help Your Research' on YouTube

This animation is an introduction to the benefits of containers for research. It was produced for Australian Research Data Commons, and developed in close collaboration with Dr. Paula Martinez.

Contents

• Video production
• Production Software
• CC-BY License
• How to use these source files
• Help and Contact

Video production

• Sam Muirhead (twitter)
• Camera Libre (website)

Production Software

Made with Free/Libre Open Source Software: - Blender (Grease Pencil) - Inkscape - Kdenlive - Audacity - Nextcloud / Jitsi / Git for collaboration

CC-BY License

Remixes, translations and adaptations of this animation are permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

This license covers the designs, script and animation, but does not cover:

• Any branding elements, including the ARDC, Nectar and NCRIS logos
• content supplied by third parties, such as voiceovers.

How to attribute

The following attribution must be provided in the credits of any video adaptation of this animation:

'How can software containers help your research?' video, CC-BY Australian Research Data Commons, 2021.

Preferably this attribution would provide some context of what you used or changed, for example:

• Includes scenes from 'How can software containers help your research?' video, CC-BY Australian Research Data Commons, 2021.

• 'Software Containers' slides based on designs from 'How can software containers help your research?' video, CC-BY Australian Research Data Commons, 2021.

• This video is a translation of 'How can software containers help your research?' video, CC-BY Australian Research Data Commons, 2021.

Additionally, in your video description or website where the animation is displayed, you should link to the published original video and its Digital Object Identifier.

Australian Research Data Commons, 2021. How can software containers help your research?. [video]

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HelrQnm3v4g

DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5091260

In other uses, such as slides, images etc, the above attribution should be (preferably) clearly displayed alongside the image, or in a credits / attribution section at the end of the document.

NOTE: A Creative Commons license is just a copyright license - it does not cover rights beyond that such as trademark or moral rights. You may not claim any association with, or the support of ARDC or its partners, and any adaptation must be clearly marked as distinct from the original, with clear attribution. Get in touch if you're unsure, or if you'd like any guidance on this.

This project uses other CC-BY material. Any re-use of designs based upon these Noun Project icons or re-use of music tracks should also attribute those original artists or arrange an attribution waiver with the artists for those works.

How to use these source files

• First you'll need to download this repository, or clone it from the command line using git clone

git clone git@gitlab.com:cameralibre/software-containers-animation.git

• The designs and layouts for the animation are in the svg folder - these will work best when opened in Inkscape, but should work fine when opened in other vector programs like Affinity Designer or Adobe Illustrator.

• The animation file is software-containers-animation.blend. This includes every scene of the animation, animated with Grease Pencil, the 2D animation tool within Blender. Open the file with Blender and you can navigate between the different scenes using the scene dropdown menu near the top right. If you're interested in working more with Grease Pencil, I recommend the tutorial 'Blender 2D/3D for Beginners' by Dedouze, or Matias Mendiola's 'Grease Pencil Fundamentals'.

• You'll probably want to render the image sequences on your own computer before you use the edit sequence (Scene 00_EDIT in software_containers_animation). You can do that by using Blender's command line interface to run the script render_all_scenes.py. In your terminal, navigate to this folder and run:

blender software-containers-animation.blend -P render_all_scenes.py

Then go have lunch. This will take a while, especially if you don't have a particularly powerful computer. You'll see the progress of the render in blender's terminal output, or you can check in the renders folder in your file browser.

• Once all scenes are rendered, you can load the image sequences in the video editor of your choice, or use the video editor within Blender. You can automatically load the image sequences into the 00_EDIT timeline using the script import_image_sequences.py:

blender software-containers-animation.blend -P import_image_sequences.py

Help and contact

Feel free to reach out to me with any questions regarding the animation, its source files, the software, licensing requirements, or future projects. I'm happy to help!

You can contact me via my website, twitter or fediverse, or by opening an issue in this repository.

Contact ARDC

If you have questions about containers, contact the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC):

• Website
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• YouTube

Learn more about the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud

If you are already familiar with containers in research, you are welcome to participate in the Australian Research Container Orchestration Services (ARCOS) Community supported by the ARDC. Visit the ARCOS website to learn more.