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

Bart · October 26, 2006

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!

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.

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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thoro

26 October 2006 at 09:45

Wow, congratulations!

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

Thorsten

Nathan Letwory

26 October 2006 at 09:45

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

Sympodius

26 October 2006 at 09:54

OMG!!! That’s fantastic!!

Well done everyone!!

konrad8ha

26 October 2006 at 10:02

Unbelievable! Blender pwns them all!

alabandit

26 October 2006 at 10:16

SHWEET!!!!

Pitel

26 October 2006 at 10:20

Yeeehaaaw!!!!!!!!!!

elcazze

26 October 2006 at 10:44

eh, what?

ton is german?

or are you all German

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

WeWa

26 October 2006 at 10:59

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

@ndy

26 October 2006 at 11:18

WOOOOO!

Jogai

26 October 2006 at 11:25

@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

26 October 2006 at 12:02

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

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

Cheers

Joeri

26 October 2006 at 12:03

Hoera!

Elubie

26 October 2006 at 12:18

wohoooo! Gewonnen!!!

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

— Andrea

filipp

26 October 2006 at 12:18

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

26 October 2006 at 12:20

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

harkyman

26 October 2006 at 12:20

Yes!

ecgilboy

26 October 2006 at 12:30

Proud to be a blender user..hoorayyy.

Sensei

26 October 2006 at 12:42

Subarashii!!
Congrats to the ED team.

basse

26 October 2006 at 13:14

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

Big Fan

26 October 2006 at 13:29

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

26 October 2006 at 13:32

Gefelicitaart! :)

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

RonaldP

26 October 2006 at 14:59

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

BArrYZ

26 October 2006 at 15:08

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.

nam

26 October 2006 at 15:43

GEWONNEN!!!!

Kernon

26 October 2006 at 15:50

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

Congratulations to all involved!

CasperN

26 October 2006 at 15:55

Nice work Orange studio!

Digitist

26 October 2006 at 15:55

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

Kram1032

26 October 2006 at 16:21

*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 fÃ¼hrt!

Vassilios Boucer

26 October 2006 at 16:33

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

venomgfx

26 October 2006 at 16:55

Felicitaciones!! :)

MagicMyshu

26 October 2006 at 17:32

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

26 October 2006 at 17:44

HA!

Awesome! Congratulations!

Tim Formica Room335

26 October 2006 at 18:00

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

Congratulations Tom & Crew!

Omar

26 October 2006 at 18:14

@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

26 October 2006 at 19:38

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

8=8

malefico

26 October 2006 at 19:59

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

malefico

Omar Abo-Namous

26 October 2006 at 20:21

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

vimal

26 October 2006 at 20:29

Wow, congratulations!

Matt

26 October 2006 at 21:02

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

26 October 2006 at 21:10

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.

Gat

26 October 2006 at 21:42

That is awsome!

blendercross

26 October 2006 at 21:46

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

ROUBAL

26 October 2006 at 22:10

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 !

Jogai

26 October 2006 at 22:36

@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

26 October 2006 at 23:15

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!

mpan3

26 October 2006 at 23:37

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?

Bmud

26 October 2006 at 23:54

Gewonnen!

ysvry

27 October 2006 at 00:33

Congrats, well deserved, after all that hard work.

food.poison

27 October 2006 at 01:21

wooohooo, congradulations!!

Chit

27 October 2006 at 01:57

Fantastic!!!

Bataraza

27 October 2006 at 02:08

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

hitaro

27 October 2006 at 04:42

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

jedihe

27 October 2006 at 05:13

Orange team: you deserve it!! congratulations!

jedihe

Matt

27 October 2006 at 07:24

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 :)

basse

27 October 2006 at 07:58

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

Satish "iluvblender" Goda

27 October 2006 at 09:53

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

Sanne

27 October 2006 at 11:28

Congratulations!

MagicMyshu

27 October 2006 at 18:10

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

phreak of nature

28 October 2006 at 07:13

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

@ndy

28 October 2006 at 08:52

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

AppleGrew

28 October 2006 at 16:04

wow and Congrats!

Alden

28 October 2006 at 17:09

Congratulations!

Jogai

31 October 2006 at 20:46

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

Bart

31 October 2006 at 22:12

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

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