Elephants Dream
Deep inside an enormous, endless machine, the old man Proog guides the young Emo through its rooms and wires, insisting on its wonders. But Emo has begun to see the place differently, and the two cannot agree on what is real. The Blender Foundation’s first open movie.
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© copyright 2006, Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute / www.elephantsdream.org · Licensed under CC BY 2.5
How it was made
The world’s first open movie, made in Amsterdam by the Blender Foundation’s Orange team with Blender and other open-source software, and co-produced with the Netherlands Media Art Institute.
- 3D animation
Characters and worlds built and animated as computer models.
- Blender
Made in Blender, the free and open-source 3D software.
- Open movie
Made in the open by its studio and released under a Creative Commons license.
- Independent production
Made outside the major studio system.
Produced by Blender Studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Credits
- Director
- Bassam Kurdali
- Producer
- Ton Roosendaal
- Screenplay
- Pepijn Zwanenberg
- Original concept and scenario
- Andreas Goralczyk, Bassam Kurdali, Ton Roosendaal
- Art director
- Andreas Goralczyk
- Lead artists
- Matt Ebb, Bastian Salmela, Lee Salvemini
- Technical director
- Toni Alatalo
- Music and sound design
- Jan Morgenstern
- Voices
- Cas Jansen (Emo), Tygo Gernandt (Proog)
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