The Blender Foundation is celebrating 10 years of open movies. The organization’s first open movie project, Elephants Dream, premiered 10 years ago on March 24, 2006, in an Amsterdam cinema.
Since then Blender Institute produced Big Buck Bunny, Yo Frankie, Sintel, Tears of Steel, Caminandes Gran Dillama, Cosmos Laundromat, Glass Half and Caminandes Llamigos. Each of these now is a landmark of Free Culture and each has helped to make Blender become the world’s most popular free/open source 3D creation tool.
To celebrate the anniversary, a scene from Elephants Dream has been re-rendered using the original models and animation, together with the latest rendering options of Blender. You can watch it on YouTube.
Elephants Dream was directed by Bassam Kurdali and the new version of the scene has been rendered by Andy Goralczyk, one of the original artists that produced the film. “Even though we admit it looks quite weird, we as the makers are still tremendously proud of the achievement!”
CGPress would like to congratulate Ton Roosendaal and the Blender Foundation on this anniversary and thank them for the amazing work they have been doing for artists around the world, developing a quality, free, open source application and setting an example that all this is indeed possible.
More information, files and sources are available on the Blender Cloud.
Pretty big milestone! Would’ve been neat in the video to see the new render and the original playing side-by-side for comparison.