[Bf-marketing] ED press release

[Ton Roosendaal]

Eeeh... the date has to be 2006!

> Mar. 23, 2005
> For Immediate Release

-Ton-

>
>
> Elephants Dream, world premiere of the first 3D 'Open Movie'
>
> Contact:
> Ton Roosendaal
> Chairman, Blender Foundation
> Email: ton at blender.org
>
> Mar. 23, 2005
> For Immediate Release
>
> Elephants Dream, world premiere of the first 3D 'Open Movie'
>
> (Blender Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - The 3D animated  
> short 'Elephants Dream' will premiere at cinema Kethelhuis in  
> Amsterdam on Friday, March 24th. The short is the culmination of  
> Project Orange, an 'open movie' produced by the Blender Foundation and  
> the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The project was conceived to help  
> develop and establish the capabilities of the Blender 3D open source  
> tool for the creation of cinema quality animation.
>
> The short film is unique in its exclusive use of Open Source tools for  
> animating, texturing, and rendering, as well as the release of the  
> movie and all of the files used in its creation under the open  
> Creative Commons license.
>
> The film tells the story of Emo and Proog, two people with different  
> visions on the surreal world in which they live. Viewers are taken on  
> a journey through that world, full of strange mechanical birds,  
> stunning technological vistas and machinery that seems to have a life  
> of its own.
>
> 'Elephants Dream' features the voice talents of renowned Dutch movie  
> actors Tygo Gernandt and Cas Jansen, as well as an original score by  
> German composer Jan Morgenstern. The short brought together the  
> talents of a team of artists from countries as diverse as Syria,  
> Germany, Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands. In addition to the  
> performances of the cast and creative efforts of the lead artists,  
> Elephants Dream has had the assistance of hundreds of individuals  
> across the world who contributed a variety of work such as programming  
> additional functionality for Blender, creating textures used in some  
> of the scenes, and providing international translations for the  
> upcoming DVD release.
>
> After the premiere of 'Elephants Dream', the movie and all of the  
> files used in its creation will be published under a 'Creative  
> Commons' license which will allow individuals the world over to learn  
> from, copy, edit, create, and even sell their own animations based on  
> the original data files used to create the movie. The tools used for  
> creating the movie, such as Blender for modeling, animating, rendering  
> and compositing; the 2D paint program GIMP for texture map creation  
> and editing; Python for scripting; and Subversion for studio data  
> version management; are also available for free under open source  
> licenses.
>
> The files will be released on two DVDs with the movie in PAL, NTSC and  
> HD formats, a making-of  documentary, and all of the studio files. The  
> DVD is expected to ship in the first half of April 2006. Shortly  
> after, the movie and database of source material will be made  
> available for public download as well.
>
> Studio Orange team:
> Director: Bassam Kurdali (Syria /USA),
> Art Director: Andreas Goralczyk (Germany)
> Lead Artists: Matt Ebb (Australia), Bastian Salmela (Finland), Lee  
> Salvemini (Australia)
> Technical Director: Toni Alatalo (Finland)
>
> The team will present their work Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26, in  
> The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam. The  
> movie will be shown daily there between 13.00 and 18.00 for two weeks  
> following the premiere.
> For more information:
>
> http://orange.blender.org
> http://www.montevideo.nl
>
> Press inquiries can be sent to Ton Roosendaal, ton at blender.org
>
>
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