Elephants Dream
Synopsis
Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect.
Project Orange
Elephants Dream was a co-production of Montevideo and Blender Foundation under the name of Project Orange. It was coordinated by the Blender Foundation. Six people from the Blender user/development community were selected to go to Amsterdam and work together making this short film, utilizing Open Source tools only.
Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie”. The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite Blender, along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed.
References
Elephant Dreams: http://orange.blender.org/
Creative Commons License: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
Open Source: http://www.opensource.org/
Blender 3D Modeling and Animation suite: www.blender.org/
