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Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the most-movies-are-so-proprietary dept.

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."

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  1. Zonk Title Sense Make Little Gah! by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    --
    This guy's the limit!
  2. NOOOOO by benjjj · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Elephant's Dream by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > 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.)

  4. Won't someone think of the fluffers? by pla · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...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!"

  5. What? by Gannoc · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 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?

  6. Re:Obvisously a technology demonstration by brjndr · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    or George Lucas

  7. I knew this day would come..... by nblender · · Score: 4, Funny

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