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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’).
The German TV news-mag Heute has published an article and a six-minute video interview with @ndy about Elephants Dream.
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!
On October 25th, 2006, Ton will be putting on a tux and heading to England for the UK Linux & Open Source Awards 2006.
Well, the title says it all, Elephants Dream (ED) has been nominated for the 3D Shorts category. The announcement can be seen at the official website and the competition is harder then one might think.
