Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect.

Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie”. The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite Blender, along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed.

2006, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Vimeo, streaming video

Watch Elephants Dream in a flash plugin here.

AVI, MPEG4 / AC3 5.1 Surround

815MB (USA #2) 815MB (Spain) 815MB (Czech Republic) 815MB (Germany)	425MB (Australia) 425MB (Spain) 425MB (Germany #1) 425MB (Germany #2)

VLC Media Player MPlayer Media Player Classic

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QuickTime, H.264 / AAC Stereo

311MB (USA) 311MB (Australia) 311MB (Spain) 311MB (Germany)	145MB (USA) 145MB (Australia) 145MB (Spain) 145MB (Germany)	99MB (USA) 99MB (Australia) 99MB (Spain) 99MB (Germany)

Playable in:

VLC Media Player QuickTime Player MPlayer Media Player Classic

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Making Of Documentary

Downloadable 3gp, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV versions (Austria) MPEG4, 100MB (Netherlands) MPEG4, 100MB (USA) MPEG2, 550MB (Netherlands) Divx 5, 31MB (Germany)

Streaming Making Of, Part 1: Streaming (YouTube) Making Of, Part 2: Streaming (YouTube) Making Of, Part 3: Streaming (YouTube) Making Of, Part 4: Streaming (YouTube)

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DVD Extras and Disk Images

Movie with commentary tracks (streaming) Bassam and Andy, Streaming (YouTube) Ton and Andy, Streaming (YouTube) Jan, Streaming (YouTube) Ton and Bassam, Streaming (YouTube)	Voice actor recording videos Voice Recording: 6MB Divx 5 (Germany) Voice Recording: Streaming (YouTube) Listen to the Sound of the Machine: 2MB Divx 5 (Germany)
DVD Image: Movie Only Elephants Dream as MPEG2 with 5.1 audio. DVD .iso (PAL version)	DVD Image: Complete version Elephants Dream as MPEG2 with 5.1 audio. Two disks, PAL and NTSC. Together the disks contain the studio database extras too.
553MB (Germany) 553MB (France)	Emo disk .iso (PAL + date, 8 GB) Proog disk .iso (NTSC + data, 6.2 GB)

PlayStation Portable, iPod video and .3gp mobile phone versions by HDX4:

Mobile player versions

Usenet (News Reader) mirrors:

Download the NZB file

Archive.org collection:

http://www.archive.org/details/ElephantsDream

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Script and translations

Final script, rtf file, English

Final script in over 30 translations.

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Production Files

All production files from the movie are released as open content and are included on the Elephants Dream DVD set. The files are also available for download:

Split across the DVDs Disc 1 (Germany) and Disc 2 (Germany)

Uncompressed audio tracks and original png files: media.xiph.org/ED/