From ton at blender.org Thu May 18 16:11:17 2006 From: ton at blender.org (Ton Roosendaal) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:11:17 +0200 Subject: [Bf-marketing] ED public release Message-ID: Hi, It's going online soon... today! So I've re-edited the previous release; will then mail it to about 20 of my press contact list. PLease check text! ------------------------- May 18, 2006 For Immediate Release Elephants Dream, internet release of the first 3D 'Open Movie' (Blender Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - The 3D animated short 'Elephants Dream' will today be released as a free and public download. This is the final stage of a successfully completed Open Movie project; which has been community-financed, using Open Source tools only, and opening up the movie itself as well as the entire studio database for everyone to re-use and learn from. The movie and production files are licensed as "Creative Commons Attribute", which only requires a proper crediting for public screening, re-using and distribution. In the past weeks, the donating sponsors have received the dual DVD set of this project in their mailbox. This DVD set remains for sale via the blender.org e-shop as support product for future Open Movie projects. The Blender Foundation is committed to start working on similar projects soon. The movie files and download mirrors can be accessed here: http://www.elephantsdream.org/download Elephants Dream is the culmination of Project Orange, 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 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 DVD release. The files have been released on two DVDs with the movie in PAL, NTSC and HD formats, a making-of documentary, and all of the studio files. The DVDs have been shipped early May 2006. As promised, 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) For more information: http://www.elephantsdream.org http://www.blender.org Contact: Ton Roosendaal Chairman, Blender Foundation Email: ton at blender.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation ton at blender.org http://www.blender.org From letterrip at gmail.com Thu May 18 17:26:34 2006 From: letterrip at gmail.com (Tom M) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 05:26:34 -1000 Subject: [Bf-marketing] ED public release In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <584fe5640605180826q51fbf4c4j326039f92aa1a0c2@mail.gmail.com> I tried changing things a bit, not sure whether it is an improvement or not, but some things might be better. LetterRip ------------------------- May 18, 2006 For Immediate Release Elephants Dream, internet release of the first 3D 'Open Movie' (Blender Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - The 3D animated short 'Elephants Dream' will be released today as a free and public download. This is the final stage of the successfully completed Open Movie project. A community-financed project with two ground breaking features - it was produced using only Open Source CG tools;. and the resulting movie and all files used in its creation are being made available under the "Creative Commons Attribute" license. This license allows one to study and learn from the the files used to create the movie; and use the files to create new works based on the files. The only requirement is that proper crediting for public screening, re-using and distributing the files. In the past weeks, the donating sponsors have received the dual DVD set of this project in their mailbox. This DVD set remains for sale via the blender.org e-shop, the proceeds of which will support future Open Movie projects. The Blender Foundation is committed to engaging in similar projects as funding permits. The movie files and download mirrors can be accessed at: http://www.elephantsdream.org/download Elephants Dream is the culmination of Project Orange, 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 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 DVD release. The files have been released on two DVDs with the movie in PAL, NTSC and HD formats; a making-of documentary; and all of the final versions of the studio files. The DVDs were shipped early May 2006, and now the movie and database of source material are being made available for public download. 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) For more information: http://www.elephantsdream.org http://www.blender.org Contact: Ton Roosendaal Chairman, Blender Foundation Email: ton at blender.org