Friday, January 11, 2008

Elephant's Dream

Elephants Dream is a computer-generated short film. Except for Reaktor, a modular sound studio, and Mac OS X, the OS of the cluster used to render the final production, all software used in production was open source. It premiered on March 24, 2006, after about 8 months of work. Beginning production in September 2005, it was developed under the name Orange by a team of seven artists and animators from around the world. Its name was later changed from Machina and renamed to Elephants Dream (named after the way in which Dutch children's stories abruptly end). (read full storie at wikipedia)

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.

The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world. (official website)

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