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Elephants Dream Creator Talks to Wikinews

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the artists-sharing-their-art dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Three days after the Internet release of the free content 3D short Elephants Dream, Wikinews exchanged e-mails with Ton Roosendaal about the reaction to the film, open source filmmaking, and the changes to Blender that resulted from the production."

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  1. What a blowhard by YAMSYAMSYAMS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Disclaimer: I think this was a cool project and I like that Blender is open source. But this guy is a fucking blowhard. "We get a lot of complaints by non-artists that they can't get into the software easily, whilst the complexity of commercial products like Maya or Houdini is perceived as a confirmation of its "quality"." Yes that's right. If you critisize Blender you're not an "artist". Because clearly only an artist enjoys unintuitive guis that makes it extra hard to get into. Yeah and Maya clearly sucks because everyone is using it. "Luckily we also got many positive reviews of the artistic result of the movie. It is quite abstract, but definitely has many layers of information, inspiring many of the viewers to see relevant real life messages hidden here." If by "abstract" he means bad storytelling and direction then I agree. I think the real life message is: this is what happens if you don't know how to tell a story properly. "(Check the weird walk cycles in The Incredibles for example)." Pfft! Pixar, what do they know about animation.

  2. Re:my opinion by dangermouse · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Art is expressive. If a work does not convey a specific message or emotion from its creator to the audience, but instead leaves everything to the interpretation of the audience, it is not art.


    If the intent to evoke a particular thought or emotional response is there, but the work does not do so, then the creator has failed to create art.


    If there is no such intent, then the creator is just screwing around and wasting everybody's time.


    I can't tell whether this movie was a failure or just screwing around, but either way it's not art any more than your blade of grass or grain of sand is, and you shouldn't give the creators or the work any credit for your own ability to amuse yourself when left to your own devices.