This Just In: Elephants Dream Wins UK Linux & Open Source Awards 2006

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sms-ton.jpgWe reported earlier about the nomination of Elephants Dream for the UK Linux & Open Source Awards 2006. I just talked to Ton, who is in London right now, and he told me that Elephants Dream won, making Dreamworks’ Over the Hedge and Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Monster House bite the dust!

Looking at the list of sponsors and attendees, I’m sure that this was a GREAT opportinuty for him to bring Elephants Dream into the spotlights once again.

We’re still waiting for pictures from the event (and especially the one of Ton in a suit!). Once they’re in, I’ll add them to this article.

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    • http://www.thoro.de thoro

      Wow, congratulations!

      Ton in a suit? Haha, I hope it’s a custom made Vrooom-Suit :-).

      Thorsten

    • http://www.letwory.net Nathan Letwory

      Very cool! This must be a very nice PR-boost for ED and Blender 3D :)

    • http://www.sympodius.com Sympodius

      OMG!!! That’s fantastic!!

      Well done everyone!!

    • http://www.konrad-haenel.de konrad8ha

      Unbelievable! Blender pwns them all!

    • alabandit

      SHWEET!!!!

    • http://pitel.borec.cz Pitel

      Yeeehaaaw!!!!!!!!!!

    • elcazze

      eh, what?

      ton is german?

      or are you all German

      Juhuuu, gewonnen!
      Aber elephants dream war erst der anfang zur weltherrschaft! Harhar!

    • WeWa

      Wow! That pretty awesome, congrats to everybody who worked on the project, you guys did good.

    • http://www.artificial3d.com @ndy

      WOOOOO!

    • http://jogai.nl Jogai

      @elcazze: Gewonnen is Dutch for Won.

      Very good News. I like the dutch parts of blendernews etc. (Like in the intervieuw with Ton)

      ps: wil there be a nl.blendernation.com too?

    • Virgilio Vasconcelos

      Well… I think this is SO great news that I´ve posted in CGTalk, to bring more good publicity to our beloved Blender. =D

      http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=421747

      Cheers

    • http://www.nonakassenaar.nl Joeri

      Hoera!

    • http://www.elubie.de Elubie

      wohoooo! Gewonnen!!!

      Very cool! Congratulations to Ton and the Orange Team! You very well deserve it!!!

      – Andrea

    • http://filipp.name filipp

      Superb. “Best Use of CGI With Linux/Open Source”. Can’t say I’m surprised though. I’m not really sure what the other nominees (Dreamworks and Imageworks) are doing there (because they ran Red Hat?) – ED was the only one of the lot to use *only* (minus the sound production) OSS tools *AND* they released their creation freely as well.

      If you ask me they should’ve gotten also a “special mention” or something like that as well..

    • Enrico Cerica

      Wow, well deserved.
      Congrats to all the guys who worked on the ED project.
      Enrico

    • http://www.harkyman.com harkyman

      Yes!

    • ecgilboy

      Proud to be a blender user..hoorayyy.

    • Sensei

      Subarashii!!
      Congrats to the ED team.

    • http://www.kulma.org basse

      @ndy you rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      .b

    • Big Fan

      Yeah! :o)
      …ok now how about the Blender Studio that no one wants to talk to me about at Blender artists..I can’t believe there is so little interest in that.
      It looks like there is going to be an Orange 2 anyway but what about the bigger picture so to speak..

      Congratulations to all Orange team and contributors to the project.

    • Piet

      Gefelicitaart! :)

      btw. Why is there an ad for Modo and Lightwave on this page? That’s blasphemy! ;)

    • http://raventale.blogspot.com RonaldP

      wiiii
      those are really good news to start the day 8-)

    • BArrYZ

      SuperCool News!

      We wait for Ton… in a suit!
      ahahahahhaha :-) :-) :-)

      Really cool, i’m very happy for this award, a big opportunity for Blender, the Orange team, and all the community, the real core of his incredibile force.

    • http://blenderart.org nam

      GEWONNEN!!!!

    • http://blendernewbies.com Kernon

      And they used to say that Blender was a cute toy…

      Congratulations to all involved!

    • CasperN

      Nice work Orange studio!

    • Digitist

      Now that we’ve got all the attention let’s use it and go for a fullfeature movie and win again.

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      *lol*
      Gewonnen is the first dutch word, witch is absolutely equivalent with german!
      It’s the same word!
      I mean, sure, there are many very simmilar words, but it’s the first one, which is spelled absolutely the same way, letter for letter!

      ED won! ED hat gewonnen! ED rules! ED führt!

    • Vassilios Boucer

      Amazing!!
      Congratulations….again and again….Continious for ever!

    • http://www.venomgfx.com.ar venomgfx

      Felicitaciones!! :)

    • MagicMyshu

      Somebody’s got some sense out there – Elephant’s Dream is the best CG I’ve ever seen to be honest. And I’ve seen a lot of them. Happy Feet looks great from the ads but Elephant’s Dream still seems many times more advanced – years ahead of other CG.

    • Chico

      HA!

      Awesome! Congratulations!

    • http://animationbytim.net Tim Formica Room335

      ED is a shot across the bow of the CG community!

      Congratulations Tom & Crew!

    • Omar

      @MagicMyshu: stop smoking :) More over, Blender is a short, not a movie.
      Don’t get me wrong, i like this short and here and defend it.

      Back to topic:

      Proficiat voor de overwinning Ton!

      cheers:

      ps: sorry, mijn nederlands is zeer roestig en, bovendien, van Brussel. hehe

    • ossassin2

      I am very happy about it!!!! ED and BLENDER RULE!!!!

      8=8

    • malefico

      Congratulations Orange Team !!!! (and I specially mean you both caras de empanadas !)

      malefico

    • http://www.toomuchcookies.net/ Omar Abo-Namous

      Wow. This is great news. Congrats! I do want to see some video-material about the event ! (??)

    • vimal

      Wow, congratulations!

    • http://mke3.net Matt

      Cool news indeed, and great publicity, but does anyone think that perhaps a *Linux and Open Source* group might have some slight bit of bias towards our project? ;) I don’t want to be a downer, but I also don’t really think it’s that amazing. :)

    • matt

      I totally agree with Matt #1. Over the Hedge was more accesible, better animated, and on a similar par for writing as compared to elephants dream.

    • http://gat.animepaper.net/ Gat

      That is awsome!

    • blendercross

      Ladies and Gents!
      ….. touchdown…..!!!!
      This i call a sucess….. congrats!!!!!

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Woah! congratulations!

      I’m very happy for Ton, The Orange Team and everyone who worked on Elephants Dream or made it possible !

      It is really desserved and a very good thing for Blender !

    • http://jogai.nl Jogai

      @matt & Matt

      I think the award is given for using open source. ED uses the most open-source or on the best way (such as contributing code while working on the short)

      Indeed over the hedge was a better blockbuster but has used lesser open-source.

    • Martinv

      Coooool..!
      It must be great for the ED-team, ED gets more and more known around the world..
      Saying: “I was animator/modeller/whatever on ED” will get you a job like this *snap*
      It’s really great. Good for Blender and open source in general too!

      Congratulations!

    • http://mpan3.homeip.net mpan3

      Holy sh1t. Steven Spielberg’s Monster House just got pwned by …a bunch of blenderheads?

      Why are they even nominated? I don’t think hollywood is that big when it comes opensource?

    • http://www.osysi.net Bmud

      Gewonnen!

    • http://home.deds.nl/~mp/ ysvry

      Congrats, well deserved, after all that hard work.

    • food.poison

      wooohooo, congradulations!!

    • http://www.myspace.com/5555785rizzo Chit

      Fantastic!!!

    • http://www.terar.com.ar Bataraza

      Good for you, my friends… you all deserve it!!!!

    • hitaro

      congratulations!!!!! a very well deserve team. i’m proud also to be a blenderhead.

    • jedihe

      Orange team: you deserve it!! congratulations!

      jedihe

    • http://mke3.net Matt

      Jogai, I know the award is for using open source, that’s why I think it’s a nice fun curiosity, not really anything to be bragging about, especially in “Blender R00lZ!!!11!” threads on cgtalk. It’s not like any of those other movies were ‘competing’ to try and get the most open source usage, and neither were we. We used open source because we wanted to, and thought it was the right thing to do for our goals for the project. I’m sure the other companies have their own practical reasons for using open source.

      So I personally think this award is fun, but not very interesting or meaningful. It’s like somebody making an award for ‘Best Dutch CG animated short involving two characters named Emo and Proog in a surreal machine’. Of course it’s still nice to have the award in any case though :)

    • http://www.kulma.org basse

      :( ooh.. and i got all excited. i should’ve known it doesn’t last.
      we suck. (but @ndy still rules)

      .b

    • http://iluvblender.satishgoda.com Satish “iluvblender” Goda

      Woot. Woot. Congratulations to the Orange team and Blender.

    • Sanne

      Congratulations!

    • MagicMyshu

      I think what Matt is trying to say is, “Yaaaaaaaaaaay Wooooot0rzs B1ender ROCKS!!!”

    • phreak of nature

      YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      CONGRATULATIONS GUYS
      also a big kudos to linux user because this is actually a opensource OSCAR so it means that we beat the big guys
      Cheers to every one involved

    • http://www.artificial3d.com @ndy

      basse r0Xx0rZ!!!!111

      anyway, i do agree this isnt so much of a special (but nevertheless surprising) award. it’s nice to see though that at least one part of the OSS community accepted us! :)

      .andy

    • http://applegrew.blogspot.com/ AppleGrew

      wow and Congrats!

    • Alden

      Congratulations!

    • http://jogai.nl Jogai

      Where is the update with the fotos? Is it coming?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Jogai: I checked with Ton and he didn’t get anything yet… I’m keeping an eye on it!