Ah, the joys of open content! Even three years after its release, people are still working with the Elephants Dream assets. Today, Dalai Felinto created a few full-dome stills of Elephants Dream, making the movie look even weirder. Pretty cool.

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Daniele Carli has taken his own approach to the open source project 'Elephants Dream', by redesigning the soundtrack/sfx and posting it on his site. Its a good demonstration of yet another interesting way to use an open source film like Elephants Dream.

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A team is preparing Elephants Dream for broadcast in Iran.

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I'd kind of decided to stop singing songs of praise for Elephants Dream, but this is a story I think I should share with you: Elephants Dream made it into '3D World's greatest independent animated 3D shorts: 1997 to 2007'.

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The most recent Peach blog post brings some great news to the Peach team. The team has been staring with wide eyes at the approaching headlights of the deadline. Many things have slowed the progress of animating. So the dream team comes in. Peach has hired some old faces to help out.

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Dahna McConnachie of Computerworld Australia interviewed artist (and developer) Matt Ebb about Elephants Dream the and process of creating an open movie.

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Exciting news! Sun Microsystems has agreed to donate processing power to render the Blender Foundation's new open-movie venture, Peach! The corporation has granted the project free hours of computing time on their supercomputing network network.com. This will enable far faster rendering and allow the team to build more-complex scenes than they might have otherwise! See more on the official Peach blog.

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Only six weeks ago we spotted a bunch of Blender screenshots in the French Microsoft knowledgebase. Today, we have something better: Microsoft.com turns out to be hosting two copies of Elephants Dream to showcase their VC-1 video codec. Is the software giant starting to appreciate the benefits of Open Content?

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The company behind this chip has upon request received original renderers of Elephants Dream from the Blender Foundation. These were used to test the 2K video screening capabilities of their new JPEG 2000 decoder chip.

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Not too long ago, the Blender community was all abuzz with Project Orange excitement. In case you weren’t around, here’s a summary of events: a small team of Blender artists and animators got together in Amsterdam for several months. They created the world’s first open movie using mostly Blender and other open source software. Their results of their work? A short film lovingly known as “Elephants Dream,” as well as a number of badly needed Blender improvements.

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If you live in the Netherlands then you have another chance to see Elephants Dream on the big screen: the organisation of the 23rd Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (AFFF) has accepted it for their programme.

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The Dutch SARA Computing and Networking Services have rendered a clip of Elephants Dream at a resolution of 4096×2160 pixels, and played it back on their 4K visualization setup which consists of 15 LCD displays.

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Bassam Kurdali and Andy Goralczyk were invited to speak at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy last January. It looks like they had a blast – here is their report.

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Sebastián Arias wrote to us about his Spanish Dub of Elephants Dream. Now my Spanish doesn't go much beyond ordering food and drinks, but from what I've seen so far they've done a great job! You can view their work on YouTube, or download the full DVD version from their website.

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Here's a nice Christmas present for y'all: Elephants Dream was included in CGSociety's CG Retrospective 2006; a public-voted list of the twenty most important developments in CG in 2006! It made sixth place, making it cooler than the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii, Pixar's 'Cars' and several major commercial packages.

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Elephants Dream will be playing in Dutch art house movie theaters as a short 'pre-movie' for the new Dutch production 'Dutch Touch', a documentary on Dutch hiphop culture. (To see a trailer of 'Dutch Touch', visit their website, wait through the intro and then select 'trailer').

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The German TV news-mag Heute has published an article and a six-minute video interview with @ndy about Elephants Dream.

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We 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!

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