Visual - Elephants Dream Animation

Elephants Dreams was soley created using 'open source' software, not one actual program though a mix of them. It won an aware for 'Best Short Film' at the European 3D Film Festival, took nearly 8 months of production and premièred in early 2006. The purpose behind the film was apparently to demonstrate the potential that can harnessed in using 'open source' software. In one of my of my earlier blog posts I speak about Steams very own real time open source editor here.

The film is a perfect example that high quality animation can be created using standard open source software. All though it doesn't make the 'film' standard it comes extremely close, it was still successful and very creative. With demonstration in mind they showcased different aspect of the software used for example 'Blender' it pushing the boundaries further than ever before. Not just the animation quality it's self though, they had brilliant use of dialogue and sound-scape to create an award worth piece. Blow I have included the trailer for a quick glance.

The film seems very surreal and yields no real plot and that's there never was one. The old man is named 'Proog' and the yonger 'Emo'. 'Proog' attempted to show 'Emo' his world that he continuely refers to as 'The Machine' which is basically a reality he has dreamed up. When 'Emo' reject his ideas 'Proog' again and again attempts to force his ideas on him. You can probably now tell it just a demonstration that shows it isn't only the businesses with big bank accounts that can create 'film' like animations.