Elephants_Dream_HD
‘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.
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very good
The modeling is quite intricate, there is an amazing attention to detail and lighting. Unfortunately the animation and rigging leave much to be desired. Every gesture and step was poorly timed and simply jarring. It looked like very bad motion capture. The bizarre dialogue sounds like it was written by a piece of language translation software and performed by voice actors who have no command of the English language. Visually the animation was enough to frustrate the viewer, now add the practically unintelligable dialogue and you have a shameful waste of some very spectacular modeling.
Man, this movie is like...almost PS3 quality, it seems. Or maybe it's just the HD speaking. Animations don't seem quite as perfect as in cinemas, but everything else is really good. I'm really impressed by the fact that all this could have been done in Blender. The plot is a bit obscure, like gridsleep said, but it's definitely one of the better movies on here.
Yeah, just get VLC. It's a guarantee you'll be able to watch any video file ever (even .mov's)
cant say anything more than just that ,,, its amazing
Amazing 1920 x 1080 HD format, playable with the free VLC Media Player. Wow, this is ambitious image rendering, with fantastic dynamic range between light lights and dark darks. What is going on in this visually stunning world of wires is evasive yet captivating.
I downloaded the low resolution version of this a long time ago. It, too, needed the VLC viewer to be seen properly. Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic do not display it even with the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack installed and AC3 and FFVF activated (those are the audio and video codecs for this file, respectively.) Ahead's NeroShow displays the video but not the audio, with a preamble warning about HD possibly not displaying properly. It seems strange that an open source project would lend itself to such exclusivity. All in all, though, a beautifully rendered view of a hideous and fascinating world inside the creators' minds. I would love to see a full length film with an actual plot emerge from this vignette. It's Kafka meets Giger. The Prisoner and Alien. Howdy-Doody versus Angus Scrimm. Willy Wonka in Pinhead's parlor. Enjoy, if your computer is fast enough. Now, I have to figure how to burn this do DVD as a movie, and not merely as a saved file.
This masterpiece was beautiful had some problem though. I couldn't se anything. I installed K-Lite codec-pack and VLC (both free) to get it work.
And it was sure worth it.
http://www.videolan.org
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm
animation and just an interesting project altogether.