‘Elephants Dream’ - World’s First Open Movie

ed_header Elephants Dream - World’s First Open Movie

A new phenomena is making its debut in the movie industry today; the world’s first Open Movie has been released on the internet.

A while ago I wrote about an animation studio, Orange, that was in the process of making an animated short film using open source tools and once completed the movie would be available for download - free of charge, as in free beer. This has come true on 18th of May and the movie is now available for download.

edscore_cover_l Elephants Dream - World’s First Open Movie The title of the animation movie goes by the name "Elephants Dream".

'Elephants Dream' is the result of almost a year of work, a project initiated and coordinated by the Blender Foundation. Six people from the Blender user/development community were selected to come over to Amsterdam to work together on an animated short movie, utilizing Open Source tools only.

All production files from the movie are also released as open content and are included on the Elephants Dream DVD set as well as are available for download. The movie and all of its production files are licensed as Creative Commons, only requiring a proper crediting for public screening, re-using and distribution. This is simply great for people who are in this industry - professionally or simply students.

Though I haven't watched it, yet, and am quite sure that it's a piece of an extraordinary work with interesting theme and story, I encourage you to download and watch it. I hope to enjoy it watching and hope you do, too.

Guys have done a tremendous work and hope to see their studio to be on top one day. Awesome job - Congratulations.

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Comment by mercury_merlin on June 04, 2006

Fantastic achievement, of course.

There’s one thing I see which concerns me, to see something like this produced as an Open movie, rather than a Copyleft movie. The makers have chosen a license which does not include the “non-commercial” constraint (Yay - good call) but also omitted the “share-alike” constraint (Boo - poor choice).

The problem is that is not that anyone can take the work, and produce derivatives (commercially or otherwise), as that was the intention of the makers, but that (subject to attribution) such a derivative work could be subjected to the full force of today’s copyright and/or DRM, and locked away from subsequent redistribution and re-use. This has happened with computer software, and is the reason for inventing Copyleft.

And I don’t believe *that* is what the makers of it would like to see, nor that it serves the interests of the wider community for that to be possible.