Elephants Dream - English animated short film with subtitles

Please watch CGI 3D Animation Short Film "Elephants Dream" made using open source applications that premiered on March 24, 2006. Beginning production in September, 2005, it was developed under the name Orange by a team of seven artists and animators from around the world. It was originally known as Machina, before being changed to Elephants Dream to more closely match the storyline. The film "Elephants Dream" is the culmination of the Orange Open Movie Project, produced by the Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The project was conceived to help develop and establish the capabilities of the Blender 3D open source tool for the creation of cinema quality animation. This animation film tells the story of Emo and Proog, two people with different visions of the surreal world in which they live. Viewers are taken on a journey through that world, full of strange mechanical birds, stunning technological vistas and machinery that seems to have a life of its own. The film features the voice talents of renowned Dutch movie actors Tygo Gernandt and Cas Jansen, as well as an original score by German composer Jan Morgenstern. The short film brought together the talents of a team of artists from countries as diverse as Syria, Germany, Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands. This movie is subtitled in more than 20 languages. (c) copyright 2006, Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute / ****** The Orange Open Movie Project Release date: 24 March 2006 Country Netherlands Budget €120,000 Directed by Bassam Kurdali Produced by Ton Roosendaal Written by Pepijn Zwanenberg Starring Cas Jansen, Tygo Gernandt Music by Jan Morgenstern Language: English spoken subtitles. ...