‘Elephants Dream’

TriedandTested · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:16

‘Elephants Dream’ is the result of almost a year of work, a project initiated and coordinated by the Blender Foundation. Six people from the Blender user/development community were selected to come over to Amsterdam to work together on an animated short movie, utilizing Open Source tools only.

The download is 425mb or 815mb (!) depending on what quality you go for...gonna download it myself later, but thought i'd share it with you guys/gals as well.

Looks good, but i have no idea what it'll be like.

Ah, oops: http://www.elephantsdream.org/ or see below!

Sherbs · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:17

Link man, some people can't use google

http://orange.blender.org/

TriedandTested · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:19

SherberT* said:
Link man, some people can't use google

http://orange.blender.org/

Oops. There now!

paradigm · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:20

The charecters look very Roald Dahl in appearance.

Downloading the large one

Sherbs · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:22

I went for the slighty smaller 400mb one, as my monitor is only 1280 x 1024. So its pointless

TriedandTested · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:24

Let us know if it's any good.

Sherbs · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:30

Will do, getting 360kB/s so will be done in 15minutes

Psymonkee · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:38

I grabbed this in it's full 1080p goodness

Looks stunning - however in terms of content it just gets a big WTF?! from me

Kreeeee · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:40

fini · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:46

looks interesting,, downloading now.

I had a play with blender..... maybe 5 years ago now (?) and it was a dog back then - though I didn't really know what I was doing to be fair - I presume it's changed a lot since then.

fini

Locrian · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:51

Well, I am put off instantly by the pretentious and pointless use of the word ‘utilizing’ but I will give it a go.

Sherbs · 3 Sep 2006 at 13:58

Just watched it and, omfg. Animations were awesome. Didn't like Emo's lip synch or voice acting but that was the only downside besides the running length.

Greenlizard0 · 3 Sep 2006 at 14:00

This kind of stuff is cool. Thanks for the headsup.

DaveyD · 3 Sep 2006 at 14:27

Looked amazing, though a little wierd for what was going on, and let down by quite horrid voice acting.

Cybermyk · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:02

DaveyD said:
Looked amazing, though a little wierd for what was going on, and let down by quite horrid voice acting.

Says it all really

Yucca · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:07

Can someone explain the difference between the big file and the small file please?

I have a nice crt which can display very high res's. Would the bigger file look better quality than the smaller one?

Sherbs · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:10

I downloaded the smaller file for my my 19" tft was perfect. But I did download the bigger one too, just seemed like the file was corrupt-ish. (Jumpy in places.)

Can anyone comfirm this?

DaveyD · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:12

Yucca said:
Can someone explain the difference between the big file and the small file please?

I have a nice crt which can display very high res's. Would the bigger file look better quality than the smaller one?

The bigger file is at 1080 HD resolution, so it's far better quality than the smaller file, but unless you've got a monitor that has a resolution of 1920x1080 then you can't get the most out of it.

Cybermyk · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:13

No problem with the file here

Cyber-Mav · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:17

SherberT* said:
I downloaded the smaller file for my my 19" tft was perfect. But I did download the bigger one too, just seemed like the file was corrupt-ish. (Jumpy in places.)

Can anyone comfirm this?

big file is not corrupt but higher resolution and require more processing power to decode otherwise it skips frames.