Elephants Dream in the Wall Street Journal

Bart · June 15, 2006

I don’t make a habit out of reporting on other sites who report on Blender, but this is more than averagely cool: multiple people have reported that an article on Elephants Dream has appeared in (drumroll) The Wall Street Journal!

The author has clearly put more thought into this than most of the articles that I’ve seen on Elephants Dream so far, and he really seems to ‘get’ it. I especially like his introduction:

Viewers of a new, animated short film online have an option not usually available to moviegoers: If they don’t like the film, they’re welcome to change it.

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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konrad8ha

15 June 2006 at 20:51

w00t!

I can only say it again: In retrospect “Elephant’s Dream” will be viewed as an important turning-point in media-creation.

Sandra Gilbert (dreamsgate)

16 June 2006 at 00:50

I am constantly amazed at how fast blender is growing. Word of our endeavors is spreading :).

ShiftingClouds

16 June 2006 at 01:35

For once, a surprisingly well researched, well thought out article as there are few on anything Blender related from total outsiders.
I sympathise with that author who took the trouble ot ‘explaining’ ED in the last chapter : this person is not taking any chances with his conservative readership !

LOL

Colin Levy (effstops)

16 June 2006 at 05:05

Wow, how cool!

Milky

16 June 2006 at 07:22

@ dreamsgate
yes indeed, Blender is growing fast, and so is our community. Elephants Dream has really opened new doors, painted in gold.

Joat

16 June 2006 at 15:26

Hmm, will there be a boom of intrested Wall Street money-sharks trying to buy Blender before their competitors do? Will open source be the next big corporate growth area? Shall we witness “the Blender bubble”?

Doubt it, but it is intresting that some instance as thoroughly business-oriented as Wall Street Journal notices a non-profit phenomenon such as Elephant’s Dream. And Blender for that matter.

Still, any publicity is good publicity.

Howitzer

16 June 2006 at 21:23

Unless it’s bad publicity…

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