‘Elephants Dream’ – World’s First Open Movie

Posted by E@zyVG | Filed under Geeky

A new phenomena is making its debut in the movie industry today; the world’s first Open Movie has been released on the internet.

A while ago I wrote about an animation studio, Orange, that was in the process of making an animated short film using open source tools and once completed the movie would be available for download – free of charge, as in free beer. This has come true on 18th of May and the movie is now available for download.

The title of the animation movie goes by the name “Elephants Dream”.

‘Elephants Dream’ is the result of almost a year of work, a project initiated and coordinated by the Blender Foundation. Six people from the Blender user/development community were selected to come over to Amsterdam to work together on an animated short movie, utilizing Open Source tools only.

All production files from the movie are also released as open content and are included on the Elephants Dream DVD set as well as are available for download. The movie and all of its production files are licensed as Creative Commons, only requiring a proper crediting for public screening, re-using and distribution. This is simply great for people who are in this industry – professionally or simply students.

Though I haven’t watched it, yet, and am quite sure that it’s a piece of an extraordinary work with interesting theme and story, I encourage you to download and watch it. I hope to enjoy it watching and hope you do, too.

Guys have done a tremendous work and hope to see their studio to be on top one day. Awesome job – Congratulations.

Comments (7) | May 19th, 2006

7 Responses to “‘Elephants Dream’ – World’s First Open Movie”

  1. AtariBoy Says:
    May 19, 2006 at 5:01 am

    Damn you beat me to it!

    I watched this last night, the graphics are just awsome, shame its only 10 mins tho.

    Its a big step for CC films, i hope it paves the way for lots more of the same :D

  2. taoski Says:
    May 19, 2006 at 5:28 am

    Looks cool!

    Saved for later…

  3. neoncheez Says:
    May 19, 2006 at 5:14 pm

    This is going to change the industry for sure. I wonder what open source tools they used???

  4. AtariBoy Says:
    May 19, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    It notes them all in the credits.

  5. Alejandro Says:
    May 21, 2006 at 9:16 am

    I thought it was big movie (like 120 mins or 90 mins) but still it was amazing, very nice movie :)

  6. alimarsh Says:
    May 23, 2006 at 1:02 pm

    Woah like 400 meg fr a 10 minute movie. It was good, but thats pretty bad compression. Good job the torrent went at like 300k/s :)

  7. Alejandro Says:
    May 28, 2006 at 7:18 am

    LOL same here, I downloaded the 800 megs hehe

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