Elephants Dream: The first 3D open movie
I am currently downloading “Elephants Dream” (http://www.elephantsdream.org), which is an Open 3D movie made using only Open Source tools (Mainly Blender for 3D work). It is the result of about 1 year of work, coordinated by Blender Foundation, community-financed, and supported by Netherlands Media Art Institute. “Open Movie” means that is is licensed under an Open Content license, which is Creative Commons, which basically allows you to “freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper attribution”.
What caught my eyes is that the director of the picture is a Syria-born Bassam Kurdali (Link1, Link2, Link3 (not working as I write this) ) who seems to be a seasoned animator. So I was double proud of the movie (first of using Open Source tools, and second for an Arab Director).
As I said, I am currently downloading the movie, and I invite you to do so, but I would like to ask you to download it using the torrent file instead of the direct download. All you have to do, is to download the small torrent file available in Elephants dream site, and use one of BitTorrent clients to open it, and it will start downloading, you can select any of the following torrent clients (BitTorrent, Azureus, BitTorando). When you download the movie using torrent, you help the project by saving them bandwidth, and you might as well get higher speeds there there are enough people “seeding” the file. You can as well buy the DVD to enjoy watching it, along with the special features, and support the project.
I will be reviewing the picture one I watch it, so stay tuned (as if I am a credible reviewer)
Technically it’s good, I mean the 3d stuff is just cool but the movie by itself is less than what I expected.
I hope it;s good
Thanks Isam, Id heard about this a while back but didnt think it would be this good. :)
footnote-> Mplayer & totem run it a bit slow for me, (by slow i mean video is a bit faster than audio), i guess it could be my codec pack.. anyone recommends an alternate codec set?
never heard bout it!! i’ll check that out :)
Dear Mr. Isam;
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I am contacting you to discuss the possibility of working together on this national and wide project “TAGIBook Project”; which is a non-profit project aims to offer an affordable computing solutions (Hardware and Software), by producing an affordable and high quality equipped with free Arabtized software for basic applications, this laptop will be for every Arab citizen in the whole Arab region in “Middle East” and North Africa.
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