Elephants Dream: Free content 3D film released to the Internet
[[Image:Elephants Dream s5 both.jpg|thumb|300px|Emo and Proog, the lead characters of the movie]]

{{date|May 19, 2006}}

The 3D animated short film ''[[w:Elephants Dream|Elephants Dream]]'', formerly known as ''Project Orange'', was released to the Internet yesterday. The film is available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution License], allowing anyone to download, modify and distribute it. The 10-minute film has been called "the first open source movie" by ''NewsForge''. Not only is the movie itself [[w:free content|free content]], even the computer files containing the 3D models used in the film are available under the same terms.

The project was first announced one year ago and was jointly produced by the Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The film tells the story of Emo and Proog, two men trapped inside a surreal machine world. Only freely available open source software was used to create the movie. Most of the work was done using [[w:Blender (software)|Blender]], a 3D modelling and rendering tool. The Blender Foundation is selling an extended edition on DVD, which includes subtitles in 34 languages, a ''Making Of'' documentary, commentary tracks, and all files used to create the movie.

In spite of the successful completion of the project, the Blender Foundation "has no intention to grow or expand into a company or studio" according to the project website. "Instead, the Foundation aims at endorsing and supporting activities within (educational) institutes, universities and companies."

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{{update|Interview with Ton Roosendaal about Elephants Dream and free content movies|May 21, 2006}}

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== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://orange.blender.org/press|title=Elephants Dream, internet release of the first 3D ‘Open Movie’|author=|pub=Orange Project website|date=May 18, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/06/2051236&tid=25|title=Project Orange: Toward the first open source movie|author=Rui Campos|pub=NewsForge|date=June 14, 2005}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.elephantsdream.org/ ''Elephants Dream'' Website and Download]

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Emo and Proog, the lead characters of the movie

The 3D animated short film Elephants Dream, formerly known as Project Orange, was released to the Internet yesterday. The film is available under the  Creative Commons Attribution License, allowing anyone to download, modify and distribute it. The 10-minute film has been called "the first open source movie" by NewsForge. Not only is the movie itself free content, even the computer files containing the 3D models used in the film are available under the same terms.

The project was first announced one year ago and was jointly produced by the Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The film tells the story of Emo and Proog, two men trapped inside a surreal machine world. Only freely available open source software was used to create the movie. Most of the work was done using Blender, a 3D modelling and rendering tool. The Blender Foundation is selling an extended edition on DVD, which includes subtitles in 34 languages, a Making Of documentary, commentary tracks, and all files used to create the movie.

In spite of the successful completion of the project, the Blender Foundation "has no intention to grow or expand into a company or studio" according to the project website. "Instead, the Foundation aims at endorsing and supporting activities within (educational) institutes, universities and companies."
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