design and the elastic mind: elephants dream

An amazing computer-animated 3D open-source film is created with a free software called 3d suite blender. I have watched this short film twice. Despite the fact that I find the environment, characters especially the atmosphere aesthetically and visually very strong ingenious and effective, I’m not a great fan of the storytelling of the film. The movie has become a phenomenon since 2006. The website of the film offers many codec formats of the movie to download and even the script is available in more than 30 translated versions is available.

“Elephants Dream has established the viability of the open-source model even in a production environment by benefiting from the collaboration of hundreds of people who “volunteered 3-D object textures, animation, translations, and… intensive enhancement and retooling of the Blender software”

This open-source movie still allows the user redistribute, remix, remade and repurpose. So, this is almost a cg movement in which series of new interpretations could be done, shared and redone but yet insufficient to collect that kind of interpretations.

director: bassam kurdali

official website elephants dream

design and the elastic mind link

a review of the movie (the content is wide and even covers the open-source limits) by Francisco Athens