Elephants Dream, the first Open Movie project which was made using Open Source Software (like GIMP, Twisted, Subversion, and Blender) was put online, available for download on the 18th of May.

The results arrived recently and are pretty satisfactory, half a million downloads in 2 weeks. Before the internet version, the movie was released on DVD, hitting the two thousand mark on the second week of May.

The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world

Download Elephants Dream - the movie

Elephants Dream Official Website - with plenty of material to keep you entertained, such as the Images & Music section.

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