‘Elephants Dream’

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:20

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?

It was probably your computer running out of CPU power to play it.

Yucca · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:24

DaveyD said:
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.

Ok so if i download any HD trailers or files like this one, i should set my monitor to display a reso of 1920*1080 and then watch it as this is how it will look best? Even though my monitor is not widescreen?

Cant run windows at that res tho can you, looks horid!?

DaveyD · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:31

Yucca said:
Ok so if i download any HD trailers or files like this one, i should set my monitor to display a reso of 1920*1080 and then watch it as this is how it will look best? Even though my monitor is not widescreen?

Cant run windows at that res tho can you, looks horid!?

You would need a widescreen monitor that supported that resolution, else on a 4:3 / 5:4 screen, it would look stupid, as it would be stretched to hell.

In a lower resolution viewing a 1080i/p HD content, you'll be losing some quality as your monitor can not display all the pixels it wants.

Yucca · 3 Sep 2006 at 15:47

Ok, thanks for the info.

Last question, honist...!

So if i am playing HD footage on my crt, which is not widescreen, whats the best resolution that you can suggest? 1600*1200?

And at the resolution you suggest, would the picture quallity be better viewing hd footage rather than for example the smaller file that was avalable? Or am i just wasting my time and wont notice any difference between hd and normal footage untill i get a widescreen monitor that supports the needed resolution?

~J~ · 3 Sep 2006 at 16:09

Probably not the right area to say this, but if you're a Blender3d user (like me

), then you can also download the source files that made this movie to learn from.

Also, little fact, Elephants Dreams is the FIRST HD DVD title in Europe!

DaveyD · 3 Sep 2006 at 16:59

Yucca said:
Ok, thanks for the info.

Last question, honist...!

So if i am playing HD footage on my crt, which is not widescreen, whats the best resolution that you can suggest? 1600*1200?

And at the resolution you suggest, would the picture quallity be better viewing hd footage rather than for example the smaller file that was avalable? Or am i just wasting my time and wont notice any difference between hd and normal footage untill i get a widescreen monitor that supports the needed resolution?

It's the horizontal resolution you need to get a 1080 display looking right, so 1920x1080, or if it were a standard 4:3 CRT, you'd have to use a resolution of 1920x1440 to get the full width.

A lot of HD content is in 720, which is a lot easier to use as it will fit on full detail on a 1280x1024 resolution screen. Unless you're watching proper HD DVDs or all you do is watch HD trailers, just use whatever resolution you're happy with for day to day use, and most widescreen TFTs only go up to 720p sized resolutions anyway, unless you spend a lot of cash.

Sherbs · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:19

My A64 3000+ Gets destroyed by a high quality video?

NOOOOoOOoo000000ooo.

DaveyD · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:20

SherberT* said:
My A64 3000+ Gets destroyed by a high quality video?

NOOOOoOOoo000000ooo.

My 3200 runs it fine on VLC media player. What are you using?

sidthesexist · 3 Sep 2006 at 17:46

saw this film a month or more ago when it first came out, the modeling ect is very good the story is a big case of WTF though, all in all a very good job though

Greenlizard0 · 3 Sep 2006 at 18:16

The quality of animation looks quality though one of the voices was a bit out of sync. I didn't quite get the story though but I still love stuff like this. Does anybody know of any others?

Energize · 3 Sep 2006 at 18:31

5.4/10 on the internet movie database.

greengiant · 3 Sep 2006 at 18:55

~J~ said:
Probably not the right area to say this, but if you're a Blender3d user (like me ), then you can also download the source files that made this movie to learn from.

Also, little fact, Elephants Dreams is the FIRST HD DVD title in Europe!

Hey hey!

I'm a blender user too!

--
Brian

fini · 3 Sep 2006 at 20:03

So I'm the only one who thought that bloom was exxxxxxxtremely overused in the vid?

fini

Yucca · 3 Sep 2006 at 21:22

For some reason when i try and play the file in windows media player its telling me that it hasnt got the right codex?!

It normally plays everything i throw at it. Any ideas?

DaveyD · 3 Sep 2006 at 21:35

Yucca said:
For some reason when i try and play the file in windows media player its telling me that it hasnt got the right codex?!

It normally plays everything i throw at it. Any ideas?

Use one of the players it suggests, VLC or Media Player Classic, links on the page.

Jokester · 3 Sep 2006 at 23:41

fini said:
So I'm the only one who thought that bloom was exxxxxxxtremely overused in the vid?

Nope, detracts from the image quality in my opinion. But still looks incredible.

Jokester

lay-z-boy · 4 Sep 2006 at 00:20

I was shown this a few months ago by a friend, in hd quality.
The story as others have said, made no sense but the visuals were increadable.

Cybermyk · 4 Sep 2006 at 00:36

The only thing I could make out from the story was that it was an old hand and the new guy sort of situation.

The younger Emo is unable to understand why things work the way they do and wants to make changes or just leave but Proog the old guy is being obstructive and unable to pass on his experience while maintaining his interest.

Locrian · 4 Sep 2006 at 00:43

I have got to say i thought that was pretty poor. As has been said there is no story line to speak of and the voice overs are poor. The animation is very off in places, esspecially walking motion. The characters dont look any better than out of HL2.

The feeling i get off this vid is how games will look like this in a couple of years not CGI movies. And bigging up the open source community? I dont know.

~J~ · 4 Sep 2006 at 00:49

Locrian said:
I have got to say i thought that was pretty poor. As has been said there is no story line to speak of and the voice overs are poor. The animation is very off in places, esspecially walking motion. The characters dont look any better than out of HL2.

The feeling i get off this vid is how games will look like this in a couple of years not CGI movies. And bigging up the open source community? I dont know.

You've missed the point.

The entire movie, post effects, sounds, voices, storyline, etc, was all created with software that is free.

The idea behind the project was to create a movie that could meet the standards as set out by other animation houses that use software that runs into tens of thousands of pounds.

A lot of the additional extras in the movie were created, free of charge, by none professional and none-paid graphics designers around the world.

Whilst the story isn't exactly a work of art, the overall input from the community has been an incredible success.