Elephants Dream
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. 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 entirety of 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 with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.
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Plot Summary
Elephants Dream is a 2006 short animated film created by Dutch animation studio Blender Animation Studios. It was one of the first films to be rendered entirely using the Blender 3D software. The film is known for its surreal and dreamlike imagery, with no discernible plot but rather a sequence of evolving abstract visuals and dream sequences.
Critical Reception
As a technical demonstration and artistic experiment, Elephants Dream was well-received by the 3D animation community for showcasing the capabilities of Blender. It's less about traditional critical reception and more about its significance as a milestone in open-source animation.
What Reviewers Say
- Praised for its innovative use of open-source software.
- Recognized for its visually striking and experimental animation.
- Seen as a landmark achievement for the Blender community.
Google audience: Google user reviews are not readily available for this short experimental film, but its impact is primarily noted within the animation and open-source software communities.
Fun Fact
Elephants Dream was produced by a community of artists and developers using the open-source 3D creation suite, Blender, and served as a proof-of-concept for what could be achieved with such tools.
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