In may 2008, the blender foundation released their second openmovie project. Elephants dream video 2006 elephants dream video 2006. Elephants dream is the worlds first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as blender, and with all production files freely available to use. Since then, the blender institute has churned out open projects most codenamed with a type of fruit every couple of years. The film tells the story of emo and proog, two people with different visions of the surreal world in which they live. Captatio benevolentiae there is no company or money of sorts behind this app. Elephants dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a. Mar 25, 2006 the software used to make the movie is the freeopen source animation suite blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and repurposed with only a computer and the data on the dvd or download. It began production in september 2005 and was released on march 24, 2006. May 21, 2006 three days after the internet release of the free content 3d short elephants dream see wikinews coverage, we exchanged emails with ton roosendaal about the reaction to the film, open source. He worked on sintel, elephants dream and spent two years on star wars video game titles for lucasarts. Elephants dream was the worlds first and widely recognized open movie elephants dream. Sep 27, 2007 only six weeks ago we spotted a bunch of blender screenshots in the french microsoft knowledgebase. Blender was the main program used to make the movie.
Official youtube channel for blender, the free and open source 3d creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3d pipelinemodeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2d animation pipeline. Elephants dream is the result of almost a year of work, a project initiated and coordinated by the. The movie and all of its production files are licensed as creative commons, only requiring a proper crediting for public screening, reusing and distribution. The blender store is operated by blender institute in amsterdam, the netherlands. This is the worlds first open source movie, created using the foss program blender. With experience on sintel, elephants dream and lucas arts, hes certainly knows his stuff.
It was made, developed, and coded by a blender team. Elephants dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully openended as the worlds first 3d open movie. Im posting elephants dream mainly because of the production story behind it. Blender is a public project, made by hundreds of people from around the world. For example, the makers of spiderman 2 used blender for 3d and character animation. Elephants dream is the culmination of the orange open movie project, produced during 20052006 by the blender foundation and the netherlands media art institute. Elephants dream simple english wikipedia, the free. The elder, proog, acts as a tourguide and protector, happily showing off the sights. Blender is crossplatform and runs equally well on linux, windows and macintosh computers.
If you got to code anyway, then you gonna code it right. The blender foundation raised much of their funding. The film is beautifully rendered, which is probably the only redeeming factor. Gpl, creative commons, and the blender artistic license. Elephants dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, proog, acts as a tourguide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege emo. And while it was a very interesting idea in concept, in reality it has failed miserably. Rendering elephants dream in stereoscopic 3d blendernation. Mar 22, 2016 for example, the makers of spiderman 2 used blender for 3d and character animation. Like with elephants dream, both the final product and the production files for each project are released under a permissive creative commons license. The film itself is released under the creative commons license, along with the entirety of the production files used to make it roughly 7 gigabytes of data. It was first developed under the name orange, then later changed to machina then finally to elephants dream since the people working on the movie could not decide how machina would be. The 3d animated short film elephants dream, formerly known as project orange, was released to the internet yesterday.
Now you can do stereoscopy with the press of a few buttons. Graficky znazornene myslenkove prostredi, ktere je jakymsi virtualnim prostorem. Elephant blender 3d models for download, files in blend with low poly, animated, rigged, game, and vr options. Elephants dream is a 10 minute short movie about complexities of a machine and how the characters deal with this complexity and ambiguity. As a followup to the successful project oranges elephants dream, the blender foundation initiated another open movie project. Like the foundations previous film elephants dream, the film was made using blender, a free software application for animation made by. Believe it or not although blender was free to download and use it is not yours. Elephants dream website elephants dream on wikipedia elephants dream on imdb elephants dream on blenders website. Created primarily using open source software with blender doing the heavy lifting, this cg short was a global collaborative effort by the creative collective orangea. Examples from many blenderbased projects are available in the showcase.
Note that the elephants dream dvd set remains for sale via the blender. Again a small team 7 of the best 3d artists and developers in the blender community have been invited to come together to work in amsterdam from. Emo and proog are on a journey in the folds of a giant machine, exploring the twisted and dark complex of wires, gears and cogs. Elephants dream codenamed project orange during production and originally titled machina is a 2006 dutch computer animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by blender foundation using, almost exclusively, free and opensource software. Dec 09, 2019 for example, the makers of spiderman 2 used blender for 3d and character animation. Is the software giant starting to appreciate the benefits of open content. A huge problem with them, however, is the vast overruse of light bloom. Lee salvemini is kind of a big deal in the blender community. The software used to make the movie is the freeopen source animation suite blender, along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and repurposed. Elephants dream is the worlds 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. Interview with ton roosendaal about elephants dream and free. Elephants dream is the culmination of the orange open movie project, produced during 20052006 by the.
Im currently working on rendering elephants dream in stereoscopic 3d in digital cinema 2k resolution. Until one moment a conflict arises that throws out all their assumptions. Riccardo sales pitch are you waiting for the perfect media player in proper vr. Ogg multiplexed audiovideo file, theoravorbis, length 10 min 58 s, 480. Elephants dream is a short movie made using mostly open source software. In fact, because it is free the license for using blender is more limited, in that attribution is essentially your payment for blender services. Elephants dream premiered exactly 10 years ago, on march 24th 2006 in an amsterdam cinema, with a memorable afterparty in the nightclub blender. Again a small team 7 of the best 3d artists and developers in the blender community have been invited to come together to work in amsterdam from october 2007 until april 2008 on completing a short 3d. Elephants dream was supposed to be the flagship project of the open source community. The film is englishlanguage and includes subtitles in over 30 languages.
Big buck bunny, a funny and furry 3d short about a giant rabbit who gets even with bullying rodents. Only six weeks ago we spotted a bunch of blender screenshots in the french microsoft knowledgebase. Like the foundations previous film elephants dream, the film was made using blender, a free software application for animation made by the same foundation. Volume 1 walks you through the modelling process and volume 2 shows you an indepth rigging walkthrough. Oct 05, 2011 with experience on sintel, elephants dream and lucas arts, hes certainly knows his stuff. Jan 27, 2020 lee salvemini is kind of a big deal in the blender community. Sep 17, 2010 im currently working on rendering elephants dream in stereoscopic 3d in digital cinema 2k resolution. Big buck bunny codenamed peach is a short computeranimated film by the blender institute, part of the blender foundation. Not only was the film entirely created using open source tools, the endresult and all of the assets as used in the studio were published under an open license, the creative commons attribute. More recently, the blender institute has spun off a separate entity. A screencast video showing a preliminary version can be seen here. Blender cloud is a web based service developed by blender institute that allows people to access the training videos and all the data from the open projects.
Elephants dream simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Jul 14, 2009 the first blender open movie from 2006. A short movie, which mostly lives from its visual aspect. Elephants dream the worlds first fully open source movie from the blender big movies for your pocket. In april 2008 the peach project, the open movie big buck bunny, was completed in the blender institute.
Three days after the internet release of the free content 3d short elephants dream see wikinews coverage, we exchanged emails with ton roosendaal about the reaction to. The software used to make the movie is the freeopen source animation suite blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and repurposed with only a computer and the data on the dvd or download. Elephants dream is an open movie developed by blender foundation. Do to this i extended blender a little bit do aid in setting up a stereoscopic camera. Revenues of the store are being used to support blender projects open movies and software development and organising the blender foundation duties. Elephants dream open movie by blender foundation youtube. Blender is the free and open source 3d creation suite. Im a fan of blender, this is a great movie made with the software.
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