Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream

Joe (and many others) writes "This month has seen the internet release of the first 3D 'Open Movie', Elephants Dream." From the site: "The 3D animated short 'Elephants Dream' will today be released as a free and public download. This is the final stage of a successfully completed Open Movie project which has been community-financed, using only Open Source tools, and opening up the movie itself as well as the entire studio database for everyone to re-use and learn from. The movie and production files are licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 2.5, which only requires a proper crediting for public screening, re-using and distribution."

Comments

Zonk Title Sense Make Little Gah!

[gEvil (beta)]

Anyone else have to read that title a few times before it made sense?

And That's not all...

[Cherita Chen]

There is also the Open Video Project which sports a very cool library of footage, etc...

Elephants Only Web Dream Release? Huh?

[i_am_the_r00t]

did someone chew on these words and spit them on my slashdot?

NOOOOO

[benjjj]

YOU CAN'T MAKE OPEN-SOURCE MOVIES!!! Who gets the money??? Who sells shitloads of licensed garbage??? My head is about to EXPLODE!!!

Re:NOOOOO

[dasdrewid]

This can only lead to one thing:

Open Source fast food restaurants with toys that choke young children because, after including the GPL, there's no space left for the "CHOKING HAZARD" warning...

Elephant's Dream

[Tackhead]

> From the site: "The 3D animated short 'Elephants Dream' will today be released as a free and public download.

Also from the site:

> 425MB (USA #1)

Not for long, it won't be.

(Where are an elephant's genitals located? In his feet. Because if he steps on you, you're fucked. Any parallels between a webserver with a 425 MB .avi file that just got linked on the front page of Slashdot are purely coincidental.)

i can't wait

[icepick72]

I laughed, I cried, it was part of me. Too bad it's still downloading.

Multi-core

[gr8_phk]

Now we know what people will do with 4 cores and up. Render their own movies.

Re:Multi-core

[ggy]

Yup, I just did 'emerge elephantsdream'. Should be ready in time for the sequel. ;)

Re:Before it's slashdoted....

[Elrond]

They should have put it up on video.google.com.

Won't someone think of the fluffers?

[pla]

"...so please, please remember - when you make "open" movies, you don't just take profits away from some Hollywood fat-cats; You hurt the gaffers and set designers and makeup artists and fluffers and all the rest of the "little guys". Without all of them, the movies you love just couldn't exist!"

And I thought the Elephant's Dream...

[digitaldc]

...was to live on a muddy peanut farm in a world without circuses or pianos.

311MB

[Nom du Keyboard]

311 Megabytes. This is going to be a Slashdotting to end all Slashdottings.

What?

[Gannoc]

> Hello, I am Eliza.
* Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream
> Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
* Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream
> Say, do you have any psychological problems?

Re:Obvisously a technology demonstration

[brjndr]

...but the script sounds as if it was authored by a chatbot.

or George Lucas

Re:Wrong...

[dr_dank]

Sad... Cineralla could have done it couldn't it?

Nope, it turned into a pumpkin after midnight.

Re:Just the free market at work.

[saboola]

You can try to make a CGI person jump up and down on a couch like a monkey on a daytime talk show, but it will never be quite right. This is why actors are worth $20 mil.

It is Not Possible That This Movie Exists

[Mateo_LeFou]

Without copyright protection for life + 75 years, people will not make movies. Everyone knows that.

I knew this day would come.....

[nblender]

cd movie ; ./configure --pg13 --with-keanu=/usr/local/actors/keanu --with-lindsay=/usr/local/actors/lindsay --disable-product-placements && make && mplayer movie.out