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2. Elephants Dream
3 years ago
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 "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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  • Jonáš Svoboda 3 years ago
    Realy gorgeous work!
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  • Lucas Lomba 3 years ago
    I love it!!
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  • Alfonso GJ 3 years ago
    Awesome :d
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  • Mystery of Albesila 3 years ago
    really great movie
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  • Gen X 3 years ago
    Genial!
    Elephants Dream es una de mis peliculas favoritas, es un trabajo excelente...
    Felicitaciones.

    Elephants Dream is one of my favorites movies.
    Is an excellent work
    Congratulations
  • Gen X 3 years ago
    Ah! Pista: es una historia vista desde dos puntos de vista, aunque se le da mas importancia a uno... por eso es genial, por la forma de ver las cosas
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  • mdsavio 3 years ago
    Great!!!
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  • Jonas Jongejan 3 years ago
    WOAW! This is really incredible! One of the best shortmovies i've seen!
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  • nic 3 years ago
    Blender is Amazing ^^
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  • detail library 3 years ago
    Inspiring. :)

    .Dilly
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  • Felipe Bachian 3 years ago
    Insane!
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  • This is really AWESOME!
    One of the best shortmovies I've seen! for sure! (and Big Buck Bunny!) I'm in love with this movie!
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  • Perfect... :)
    Blender is a wonderful dream...
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  • Harm Wellink 3 years ago
    I Like it ;) But.. i don't understand the story :S
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  • Fran R. Garcia 3 years ago
    muy pero muy buena exclentisima
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  • Johan Löfström 3 years ago
    is it possible to show this at my short-film-festival? It is free and open for all visitors...
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  • TweakingKnobs 3 years ago
    great!!!
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  • Brian Hanifin 3 years ago
    That was incredibly painful to watch. The art was beautiful... but it made no flippin sense. I liked the bunny story far better.
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  • Vitalii Zdanevich 3 years ago
    Russian edition - vimeo.com/1984247
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  • Ahtenus 3 years ago
    I like it! Really nice looking and all
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  • August M. 3 years ago
    i agree with Brian

    beautiful animation
    but very painful to watch
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  • Mike Paech 3 years ago
    it's got great production values and nice direction....but the animation on the characters is sorely lacking. There. I said it. Shoot me down in flames if you wish
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  • federico villacorta 3 years ago
    truly amazing !!!!!!! i love it..........
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  • Pig Penguin 2 years ago
    im just gonna say...proog seemed better animated then imo...
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  • david rodriguez 2 years ago
    blender rules!!
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  • Sean R-H 2 years ago
    Great animation but I don't get the story at all.
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  • Oskar Jonsson 2 years ago
    maybe you should put up a hd version of this one as well! so we dont miss all the goodie details
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  • Ali Molavi 2 years ago
    this is great work , greater open work
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  • Gio Dim 2 years ago
    perfect!
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  • aeffe 2 years ago
    wonderful quality and great work!
    open files are always the best!
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  • therealnoz 2 years ago
    Wonderful but, I lost my Elephants Dream File disk. Could someone give me a direct link to the production files?
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  • Bobby Woody 2 years ago
    This is great!
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  • Bobby Woody 2 years ago
    My favorite open video assignment ever.
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  • Amarildo Viana 1 year ago
    Amazing !!
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  • Mariano Otamendi 1 year ago
    when i become older i wanna be like you
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  • Liz Liu 1 year ago
    Such amazing, dreamlike imagery - the animation and models going on in the background are my favorite part.
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  • Nate Nelson 1 year ago
    Wow! I got E D on my iPod using KeepVid.com. Now tell me-am I speaking to the actual Blender foundation? 'Cause I had a couple questions....
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  • Alexgri 1 year ago
    I didn't chatch the story at all.. :|
    How the rebellion of a human mind is impossible against the "machine" (the system)?
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  • The Release 1 year ago
    This is absolutely amazing!!!! I can't wait to start tinkering with it all!!!
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  • Tommy Rodgers plus 1 year ago
    Really great.
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  • Sam 10 months ago
    Fantastic to look at, with an intriguing premise.
    The voice actors really ruin it for me, though - I'd genuinely consider muting the video entirely on repeat viewings.
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  • Jorge Narvaez 9 months ago
    As usual from Blender Foundation, amazing!
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  • Usman 5 months ago
    Really well done. Blender was one of the first 3D software, I used.
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  • stoiQa plus 2 months ago
    superb
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