Comments on: Chat with the Creators of Elephants Dream http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/ Fresh Blender News, Every Day Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:17:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James Bruno http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3184 James Bruno Sat, 27 May 2006 02:55:06 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3184 All I can say is... damn! All I can say is…
damn!

]]> By: DukeAndrey http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3169 DukeAndrey Fri, 26 May 2006 20:20:59 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3169 We compare it to commercial ones as a a compliment to Blender and all of its contributors because even though Blender is being brought to life with a budget of next to nothing, it <i>still</i> can create movies just as good and even better than multi-million dollar ones. We compare it to commercial ones as a a compliment to Blender and all of its contributors because even though Blender is being brought to life with a budget of next to nothing, it still can create movies just as good and even better than multi-million dollar ones.

]]> By: dave62 http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3167 dave62 Fri, 26 May 2006 19:59:30 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3167 Very Nice art! dont compare this movie with comercial ones with a multimillion dollar budget! due to the orange project, blender has improved so much and the movie is great!!! I would be the "first" who will help sponsoring the next movie... thanx a lot!!! i l o v e b l e n d e r ! Very Nice art!

dont compare this movie with comercial ones with a multimillion dollar budget!
due to the orange project, blender has improved so much and the movie is great!!!
I would be the “first” who will help sponsoring the next movie…
thanx a lot!!!

i l o v e b l e n d e r !

]]> By: Tio Ilmo http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3119 Tio Ilmo Thu, 25 May 2006 19:10:39 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3119 Dear Folks, I think I reached my objective. I've openned a discussion around the story and I could received the enough feedback I hoped. Everybody is wright in its point of view, but Terence in special made the best comment. What do we want ? A commercial movie or a free one ? If we want a commercial movie we need go to one way (reach public expectation) and if we want a free one we can go anyway. In general the best famous movies mix some expert things with simple things but in general it is quite simple. Usually the best movies include something that the target public can be familiar. The "Ants" movie ? It combine a funny story, some fiction, humor and the real life in a human comunity. The "Monsters Inc" made the same mix but simulating a manufacturing plant. The "Toy Story" made the sames mix but explored the real life of boy playing with his toys. If you think safely about this movies you will see that is possible make this mix to have a good result. If you consider the effects, animation, sound , etc... "Elephants Dream" even being a short film did not lose anything comparing to them but its story is good only for a small specified public. I mean we can reach a major range of spectators with quite simple but criative story that people can find their lives in there. Thanks for all your previous comments including the disagreements. We can lerna more and more talking about polemic treats. Tio Ilmo Dear Folks,

I think I reached my objective. I’ve openned a discussion around the story and I could received the enough feedback I hoped.

Everybody is wright in its point of view, but Terence in special made the best comment.

What do we want ? A commercial movie or a free one ?

If we want a commercial movie we need go to one way (reach public expectation) and if we want a free one we can go anyway.

In general the best famous movies mix some expert things with simple things but in general it is quite simple.

Usually the best movies include something that the target public can be familiar.

The “Ants” movie ? It combine a funny story, some fiction, humor and the real life in a human comunity.

The “Monsters Inc” made the same mix but simulating a manufacturing plant.

The “Toy Story” made the sames mix but explored the real life of boy playing with his toys.

If you think safely about this movies you will see that is possible make this mix to have a good result.

If you consider the effects, animation, sound , etc… “Elephants Dream” even being a short film did not lose anything comparing to them but its story is good only for a small specified public. I mean we can reach a major range of spectators with quite simple but criative story that people can find their lives in there.

Thanks for all your previous comments including the disagreements. We can lerna more and more talking about polemic treats.

Tio Ilmo

]]> By: DukeAndrey http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3049 DukeAndrey Wed, 24 May 2006 22:55:22 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3049 I c that Alabandit and I share the same views :) I c that Alabandit and I share the same views :)

]]> By: Alabandit http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3031 Alabandit Wed, 24 May 2006 18:08:16 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3031 If in science class we test the temprature of water with profetional equipment and then test it against ours-what if we find that what we did was diffrant but need a little more tweaking to be just as good and may be...just may be we realise that we can do beter than we have done and they have done, and then instead of stoping the experiment we start run more trials and improve what we have done...then maybe instead of trying to freese water at 32 degrees, we freeze it at 0 degrees...then we have a hole diffrant way of mesuring temp and guess what? they both are great and both have there strengths... ...so may be pixar will not buy out blender later this week...maybe just maybe there is a new sun on the horizon...what if we are on that hozison, would we not see pixar setting??? Dare we dream...dare we not encourage our young new sun 2 rise? i see orange progect rising...what do u C If in science class we test the temprature of water with profetional equipment and then test it against ours-what if we find that what we did was diffrant but need a little more tweaking to be just as good and may be…just may be we realise that we can do beter than we have done and they have done, and then instead of stoping the experiment we start run more trials and improve what we have done…then maybe instead of trying to freese water at 32 degrees, we freeze it at 0 degrees…then we have a hole diffrant way of mesuring temp and guess what? they both are great and both have there strengths…

…so may be pixar will not buy out blender later this week…maybe just maybe there is a new sun on the horizon…what if we are on that hozison, would we not see pixar setting???

Dare we dream…dare we not encourage our young new sun 2 rise?

i see orange progect rising…what do u C

]]> By: DukeAndrey http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3029 DukeAndrey Wed, 24 May 2006 17:38:27 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3029 1. I was only creating an analogy 2. What "experiments" are you talking about, and how are they different? 3. If not compare Elephant's Dream to the dominating Pixar or Dreamworks, than who? 1. I was only creating an analogy

2. What “experiments” are you talking about, and how are they different?

3. If not compare Elephant’s Dream to the dominating Pixar or Dreamworks, than who?

]]> By: Terence http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3028 Terence Wed, 24 May 2006 17:14:15 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3028 Wow. What a lot of debate about whether or not it was a good story. Personally, I thought it was a great story. I've seen a lot of 3D shorts, but I generally don't feel a need to watch them more than once or twice. I've watched ED proabaly about 9 ro 10 times and each time I have new questions about what things mean. I think the team put more into the 10 minutes of this short than a lot of movies put into feature lenght movies. I understand that a lot of people may have been hoping for something more commercially appealing, which usually means straightforward story and characters. I myself am glad they made something for me to exercise my gray matter on. Wow. What a lot of debate about whether or not it was a good story. Personally, I thought it was a great story. I’ve seen a lot of 3D shorts, but I generally don’t feel a need to watch them more than once or twice. I’ve watched ED proabaly about 9 ro 10 times and each time I have new questions about what things mean. I think the team put more into the 10 minutes of this short than a lot of movies put into feature lenght movies. I understand that a lot of people may have been hoping for something more commercially appealing, which usually means straightforward story and characters. I myself am glad they made something for me to exercise my gray matter on.

]]> By: joeri http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3022 joeri Wed, 24 May 2006 13:44:29 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3022 And this being art it's of course very important to measure up to science class rules so here we go: Shouldn't that be at least the same experiment? So better not compare a lakmous test with a pregnancy test, they are not really interchangeble. Or didn't they tell you that in science class? O well, it's computer generated moving images, so it must be the same thing. And I could not find any “How to Create Pixar-looking Eyes” in the orange blog. O well, Orange blog, Blender Wiki, all the same thing, right? At least when you think not beyond a level where your brain starts to fry. But I guess they didn't tell you in science class to be accurate and get your facts right. And this being art it’s of course very important to measure up to science class rules so here we go:

Shouldn’t that be at least the same experiment?
So better not compare a lakmous test with a pregnancy test, they are not really interchangeble. Or didn’t they tell you that in science class?

O well, it’s computer generated moving images, so it must be the same thing.

And I could not find any “How to Create Pixar-looking Eyes” in the orange blog.
O well, Orange blog, Blender Wiki, all the same thing, right? At least when you think not beyond a level where your brain starts to fry.

But I guess they didn’t tell you in science class to be accurate and get your facts right.

]]> By: DukeAndrey http://www.blendernation.com/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-3019 DukeAndrey Wed, 24 May 2006 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/20/chat-with-the-creators-of-elephants-dream/#comment-3019 I repeat from myself Alabandit's post. We compare Elephant's Dream to Pixar because, when you were in science class, weren't you told to compare the results of an experiment to a control, a standard? The result of the 7 month old experiment by the Orange Team was ED and the standard or control is Pixar's movies. And all those tutorials dubbed "How to Create Pixar-looking Eyes" are really encouraging too. I repeat from myself Alabandit’s post.

We compare Elephant’s Dream to Pixar because, when you were in science class, weren’t you told to compare the results of an experiment to a control, a standard? The result of the 7 month old experiment by the Orange Team was ED and the standard or control is Pixar’s movies.

And all those tutorials dubbed “How to Create Pixar-looking Eyes” are really encouraging too.

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