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Elephants Dream is a 2006 Dutch animated science fantasy short film directed by Bassam Kurdali and produced by the Blender Foundation, following an older character named Proog guiding a younger character named Emo through a strange mechanical world. Made by a seven-person international team using almost entirely free and open-source software, it was created as a public field test of the Blender 3D program, and both the finished film and its full production files were released under a Creative Commons license. Its open release model made it an influential early demonstration of collaborative, open-source filmmaking, and it was later shown in the Museum of Modern Art's 2008 Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition.

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Original Language
Dutch 1
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Best Short Film (European 3D Film Festival) 1
Release Year
2006 1
Country
Netherlands 1
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1. Elephants Dream - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, released
    2006 03 24
  • Infobox, country
    Netherlands
  • Elephants Dream, Description, original language
    Elephants Dream is a 2006 Dutch animated science fantasy short film directed by Bassam Kurdali and produced by the Blender Foundation, following an older character named Proog guiding a younger character named Emo through a strange mechanical world.
  • Wikipedia Awards section (best-short-film-european-3d-film-festival), checked 2026-09-27
    Elephants Dream received the award for Best Short Film at the first European 3D Film Festival in 2010
  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch animated experimental science fantasy short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software.
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