Ponti, Francesca DelliGuidazzoli, AntonellaImboden, SilvanoLiguori, Maria ChiaraFranco Niccolucci and Matteo Dellepiane and Sebastian Pena Serna and Holly Rushmeier and Luc Van Gool2013-10-312013-10-312011978-3-905673-86-9https://doi.org/10.2312/PE/VAST/VAST11S/081-084''APA and the History of Bologna'' is the first 3D stereo movie made with Blender according to high philological standards and related to the history of an entire city with four different geo-referenced historical digital terrain models and several scenarios, from the Etruscan up to the present day. The methodology developed for this realisation, centered on open source and interdisciplinary framework, has been of great help in this endeavour.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.8 [Computer Graphics]: ApplicationsA Blender Open Pipeline for a 3D Animated Historical Short Film