Elephants Dream
About Elephants Dream
Old Proog leads young Emo through a huge machine of odd rooms, a telephone switchboard, and an abyss on mechanical legs. Proog insists the machine is real and perfect. Emo says it is not, and mocks it by calling up twisted copies of the Hanging Gardens and the Colossus of Rhodes. Proog knocks him out and keeps insisting.
Cast & crew
More about Elephants Dream
Bassam Kurdali directed the Blender Foundation's first open movie, code-named Project Orange and at first called Machina, released on 24 March 2006 under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Jan Morgenstern wrote the music, and Wikidata gives 11 minutes. New Blender tools included a node compositor and hair, and frames were rendered on the BSU Xseed cluster.
Themes
Technique
Almost the whole film was made in free software, with Blender features written for this production, and rendered on the BSU Xseed cluster.
Music
Jan Morgenstern wrote the score.
Preservation
The film was released under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Notes
- The Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Montevideo, is named with the Blender Foundation on the production.
- Other free tools on the show included GIMP, Inkscape, CinePaint, and OpenEXR.
- Wikipedia says a frame could use up to 2.8 GB, and the render ran about 125 days.
- Proog is the guide. Emo is the boy who will not believe the machine.
Scenes
- Emo conjures a bent Colossus inside Proog's machine.
- Proog strikes him and talks on as if the place were solid.
Also available
- Internet Archive (ElephantsDream)
- Wikimedia Commons (Elephants Dream (2006).webm)
