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I have a 56" screen haning at the end of my bed. So the distancance between my eyes and the screen is the length of my bed. Say 2m or 6.5ft.

I have looked at Elephants dream and Big Buck Bunny in different formats. When I played them next to each other, I could notice a differnce between 1080 and the rest. However when running in random mode fullscreen, it was extremely hard to know if I was running 480, 720 or 1080. 480 was noticable when I realy payed attention. 720 and 1080 was more guessing then reality.

Below 480 it was still acceptable for e.g. tv shows.

And yes, I actually made a scrit that ran 30 seconds from random files for 30 seconds from random starting points in the movie. I also did it with blueray movies I had, although less intensive and I saw no major increase in quality.

So that is one thing about the quality and can be very personal. Now about the disc format. I would rather have my data on a NAS. Even if it would be an ISO with all the menu's, a NAS is much more convinient. I have access to other data (e.g. IMdB or Rottentomatoes with something like XBMC), I do not have to look for the disc, put it in the machine and get it out again.

So I would not compare between streaming and disc, but between downloading and disc.

(We discussed the beginnings of this project in 2007.)

Well, that is incorrect. You've linked to an article about Peach and Apricot projects, both of which were completed.

This is a seperate, 4th project, Durian (Orange being the first)

...the first 'Open Source' over the internet fan made movie...

Second

As long as we're mentioning garage bands and low-budget movies as acceptable stand-ins for, say, the Flaming Lips and the Dark Knight, I thought I may as well mention Big Buck Bunny and Elephants Dream.

Sure, Elephants Dream was a bit odd on the story and acting side, but it was visually impressive. BBB was a standard cartoony short. These were not at Pixar's level, but they were released under a Creative Commons license with all of their sources.

I've been hearing good things about Durian, too.

I don't think it's a case of Linux being unable to win the desktop. I think it's just that, while we may have superiority on the desktop and under the hood, we still need to gain ground in the area of software. This does not necessarily mean that we have to get Photoshop ported, IMHO building a following behind The Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, KinoDV and other open source apps on both Windows and Linux will help the war effort generally.

While these applications are (to be honest) still far behind their commercial counterparts, a greater user base and higher profile will attract developers and help them catch up, just as higher profile has helped garner support for the Linux kernel itself from developers and companies.

Projects like Big Buck Bunny and Elephants Dream have proven that high quality, professional results can be achieved using open source tools, a proposition that more and more companies will find attractive as new talent enters industries that use these tools.

Give it time. The Linux ecosystem is growing. Growing far faster than the commercial fields. We're already competing toe to toe in areas like web servers (Apache and LigHTTPD) blow away IIS and other web servers, PostgreSQL easily competes on a level field with Oracle and DB2 and Inkscape isn't as far beind Illustrator as Gimp is behind Photoshop. Blender was proved to be a highly capable 3D modeler and animation tool in the BBB and ED projects mentioned above.

It's only a matter of time.

This is music:
http://theslip.nin.com/

This is a movie:
http://www.elephantsdream.org/

This is a game:
http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/

This is software:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Their service can be used both for good and bad. If the majority of people choose to use it for illegal sharing, that why don't they pursue those people? And, I'll tell you why - because everyFUCKINGbody does it! It's a signal to the fact the the companies producing the content have no idea how to distribute it and price it correctly and instead start this frivolous witch hunts.

... who completely loved that short trailer?

I mean, it's great that it's released under Creative Commons and stuff, but, unlike previous efforts (which were damn good BTW), this one has me completely psyched. The look and feel, the theme, storyline... it reminds me of one of those old campy sci-fi flicks.

I can't wait for the release!

What kind of game will this be?

It will be an Open Source game. Didn't you read the title ?-)

Seriously, thought, I'm getting a bad feeling about this. There is a considerable risk that the game will simply be a glorified tech demo, like Elephant's Dream was. This didn't really matter for the film, since you can just switch back and admire the surreal world and effects; but it will matter for a game, where you'll have to interact and participate. A game must be more than just a bunch of random ideas thrown together.

Wait a second! Isn't the next Elephant's Dream-like open animated short (originally called "orange") going to be called "Peach"?

Orange? Peach? Apricot?

I call nepotism! ;)

W

Seriously tho-- is the game related to the short?

I'd think the development of an "Open" movie - much like Blender's Elephant's Dream and Project Peach - only more ambitious, would be more interesting to Slashdot readers.

In this case, yes. The movie file is provides by the Azureus service Vuze. From what I understand, they have permission to provide HD trailers to Vuze users. Their business model, in fact, is based around the core idea that HD content is too expensive to host through a standard HTTP download model. To combat that cost they provide a Bittorrent service that allows content producers to upload their HD content to Vuze for ultra-fast seeding on Vuze's servers combined with the extra bandwidth of P2P users.

While it is still a long way from becoming the "Youtube in HD" that they originally pitched it as, it does still have its uses. HD Trailers are one example. Another is the HD version of various short films which have been freely distributed. (Though that "Elephant's Dream" sci-fi/fantasy movie makes absolutely no sense. It was amazingly good CG, but perhaps next time they could include a story?) ;-)

Lol.

Emo is the old dude in the official Blender movie, Elephant's Dream.