Elephants Dream Project
Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such asBlender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world. More about the project…
The story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect.
Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D “Open movie”. The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the entirety of the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.
Randy Settles
Whats up peeps……\m/
Thanks for taking the time to check out my page. I am majoring in Multi Media Design. During winter term of 2012 I took Audio Production and found that I really enjoyed this type of work. We were all given a two minute video clip for a final project in which we had to record all the foley sound effects, soundtrack music, background ambient sounds, and dialog for the characters and put everything together in sync using Pro Tools LE 8. The movie clip I chose was call “Elephants Dream”. My instructor thought I did a great job that when I asked about doing an independent study for spring term 2012 he suggested how bout doing the whole 10 minute movie of “Elephants Dream”? The main objective of this blog is to let other students, faculty, and the general public that is interested to follow my work and progress from beginning to the final. Once again thank you stopping by and I welcome any feedback, comments, and/or suggestions that could help me not only succeed in this project but further my education in the field of audio production and anything pertaining in Multi Media Design.
So here is my half ass Bio….LOL
I was born and raised in Venice Beach Ca. I like to call where the sewer meets the sea.
Most of my life was a lot of drama..you know-dysfunctional family crap..So I started using drugs and alcohol at a very young age and did this for over 25 years. Heroin was my drug of choice. ended in prison – walk away from wife and two kids- Basically made a ton of stupid choices. I am not like that any more…Been clean for a while now…go to school….I am a part of my kids life today…and don’t trip out when the cops pull me over anymore…I’m a musician-photographer-and really enjoy learning multi media design. Thats enough BIO crap for now….
Randy Settles 