Archive for June 18th, 2006

one month of elephant’s dream

Sunday, June 18th, 2006
elephantsDream.jpg

to the day one month ago the world’s first truly open source short movie made its online appearance. Since then a vivid discussion about “what is it all about” emerged (see e.g. here (german)). As for end of May they counted half a million downloads. The project was realized almost etirely by using open source software (most prominently blender for modeling) and sponsored and hosted by the Netherlands Media Art Institute. (complete credits here)