Friday, May 19, 2006

AWESOMENESS!!!

The title to this post is a link to the last page that you will ever visit. It is a link to the download page to the infamous film, "Elephant's Dream."
This movie has been in development for a remarkably short amount of time; certainly not the four years required by pixar's films.

"Elephant's Dream," Previously known as the Orange Open Movie Project, is an attempt by the open source community (AKA "the guys who get all of the good stuff for free") to show the world that a high quality movie is possible (and easy) to make with off-the-shelf FREE software tools that are availible for most every system.

The most positively awesome thing about the project is that everything that they have used to make it, including the textures, models, animations, scenes, and sounds, are completely available to anyone who wants them. The benefit to you is that if you don't like the pre-rendered complete version, you can take the files and change a simple setting (one click!) and then click "render" (also one click!), and immediately your custom-framed movie is being rendered, right before your eyes!

And because of it's license, you can give it out to whoever you want.
But you should take that with a grain of salt. I havn't seen the specific license, and it may be a no-dirivs version. Check it out, I'm too hyped to do it.


Oh, and as a side note, the after-screening party was held at a bar called blender.

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