Elephants Dream

Elephants Dream is a computer-generated short film made primarily using free software applications and 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).

The film was first announced in May, 2005 by Ton Roosendaal, the chairman of the Blender Foundation and the lead developer of the foundation's program, Blender. A 3D modelling, animating, and rendering application, Blender was the primary piece of software used in the creation of the film. The project was joint funded by the Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The Foundation raised much of their funds by selling pre-orders of the DVD. Everyone who preordered before September 1 has his or her name listed in the film's credits. The bulk of processing for rendering this film was donated by the BSU Xseed, a 2.1 TFLOPS Apple Xserve G5-based supercomputing cluster at Bowie State University. It reportedly took 125 days to render, consuming up to 2.8GB of memory for each frame. The completed film is 11 minutes long, including 1 minute and 30 seconds of credits.

More information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_Dream

Source: http://www.elephantsdream.org/

Software: http://www.blender.org/

Creative Commons license:
Attribution 2.5
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• computer
• generated
• animation
• open
• source
• software
• creative
• commons

[MarioGirl03]

I'm sorry I never heard about the movie but is that guy's nme is EMO?

[willmed]

Yup, and the other one is Proog.

[crabheart]

wow.. this was done with blender?... hmm.. do you know want the interface is like compared to max?

[willmed]

I have no clue. Never tried max, but blender is very impressive for a free tool.

[Dudekahedron]

the machine is in the old man's mind right?

[Bunechunk]

the voices are fucking annoying! almost unbearable!

[pkcheeze]

@YoungFeIIaz have you ever used blender before then? if not did you know how many hours it takes to make a short movie like this? on some of these animations they work for like 6 months for a 10-20 minute film with teams of 12 people... lets see what you can do

[Jackal123111]

random smack in the face near the end.

[AlteredVistas]

Beautifully animated, textured and lit. Unfortunately, horribly scripted. With a decent script, you could be awesome!

[YoungFeIIaz]

7:39 best spot SLAP otherwise da whole movie is shit

[jcjamlig]

good stuff but the animation is kinda weird.

[mushroomh3ad]

Awomse

[dieKatha182]

What was the name of the young guy? I didn't understad.

[chrispymage]

cant beleive you did that in blender must have been very hard and long work creating the set and thing like the wires