Creative Commons License - Elephants Dream

I was doing some research on the internet today in regards to Creative Commons Licenses and found an interesting example of how the Creative Commons Licenses has been used.

As we know producing a 3D animation film for cinema is a very expensive process. You need specialized software such as 3D Max, Maya, Softimage etc which requires license fees. On top of this, if you were to use Windows XP as your computer operating system you would have to pay for the number of computers you are using etc. which adds more to the expense of production costs.

Blender is an Open Source 3D Modeling and Animation suite meaning it is free, no license fees. Linux is a computer operating system and it is also Open Source, and yes no license fees.

Well the Blender Foundation decided to make a short 3D animated film using only Open Source software(free). When the film was finished, the Blender Foundation have allowed and given permission to the artistic community to download all the production files (7 Gig). The files are covered by the Creative Commons License and you can remake, remixed and re-purposed the movie. The producers of the film have stated that the movie “Elephant Dreams” is the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie” . For further information and videos on how and why the film was made [Read More]