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Elephants Dream is a computer-generated movie made using mostly open source applications that premiered on March 24, 2006. Beginning production in September, 2005, it was developed under the name Orange by a team of seven artists and animators from around the world. It was originally known as Machina, before being changed to Elephants Dream to more closely match the storyline.

The film was first announced in May, 2005 by Ton Roosendaal, the chairman of the Blender Foundation and the lead developer of the foundation's program, Blender. A 3D modelling, animating, and rendering application, Blender is the primary piece of software being used in the creation of the movie. Shortly after the announcement, the Blender Foundation began to take preorders of the movie's DVD. Everyone who preordered before September 1 will have their name mentioned in the movie's credits.

The film's purpose is primarily to showcase the capabilities of open source software and evaluate it as a tool for organizing and producing quality content for professional films.

During the film's development, several new features, such as hair and fur rendering , were added into Blender especially for the project.

The film's content will be released under the Creative Commons license, so that viewers may learn from it and use it however they please. The DVD will contain all the production files in addition to the final movie.

Cast

Tygo Gernandt - Proog
Cas Jansen - Emo

Crew

Ton Roosendaal - Producer
Bassam Kurdali - Animation director
Andy Goralczyk - Art director
Matt Ebb - Artist
Bastian Salmela - Artist
Lee J Cocks - Artist
Toni Alatalo - Technical director
Jan Morgenstern - Composer

Software

Blender
CinePaint
GIMP
Python
Seashore
SubVersion
Reaktor

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