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29-483: The foundation has distributed the animated films Elephants Dream (2006), Big Buck Bunny (2008), Sintel (2010), Tears of Steel (2012), Caminandes : Llama Drama (2013), Caminandes: Gran Dillama (2013), Cosmos Laundromat (2015), Glass Half (2015), Caminandes: Llamigos (2016), Agent 327: Operation Barbershop (2017), Hero (2018), Spring (2019), Coffee Run (2020), Sprite Fright (2021), Charge (2022), and Wing it! (2023). The foundation

58-679: A free, open-source video game Yo Frankie! (2008). According to the Foundation, these projects are intended "to validate and improve the 3D open source content creation pipeline with Blender". Each project was created using the Blender software and released under permissive license terms, along with the source material. In addition to demonstrating the capabilities of the software, the Open Projects provided detailed production material (sketches, tutorials, textures and models, etc.) to serve as examples for

87-481: A computer file of an HD version, and all the production files. In 2010, four years after the original release, the film was entirely re-rendered in stereoscopic 3D by Wolfgang Draxinger. The project was announced to the public in mid-September on BlenderNation, and premiered at the 2010 Blender Conference. The stereoscopic version was rendered in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) 2K flat resolution, with

116-399: A crucial event from the past, in a desperate attempt to rescue the world from destructive robots." On October 25, 2017, an animated short film named Spring was announced. Spring was released April 4, 2019. Its purpose was to test Blender 2.8's capabilities before its official release. On May 29, 2020, the open movie Coffee Run was released. It was the first open movie to be rendered in

145-480: A direct result of Project Durian. Filming for Mango started on May 7, 2012, and the movie was released on September 26, 2012. As with the previous films, all footage, scenes and models were made available under a free content compliant Creative Commons license. According to the film's press release, "The film's premise is about a group of warriors and scientists, who gather at the ' Oude Kerk ' in Amsterdam to stage

174-463: A door from which music emanates. Emo asks to go through the door, but Proog insists that it is unsafe, and presses a button within his cane to enclose them both in a smaller room. Proog asks Emo why he fails to recognize the beauty and perfection of the machine, to which Emo responds that the machine does not exist. Frustrated, Proog slaps Emo across the face, pushing the startled Emo to walk away. Emo mockingly imitates Proog's earlier tour to demonstrate

203-495: A slightly wider aspect format which required adjustment of the camera lens parameter in every shot. Many scenes in the original production files used flat 2D matte paintings which were integrated into the rendered images during the compositing phase. For the 3D production each matte painting had to be manipulated or entirely recreated into versions for each eye. Draxinger implemented a number of stereoscopic features in Blender to aid in

232-478: Is chaired by Ton Roosendaal , the original author of the Blender software. One of the foundation's stated goals is "to give the worldwide Internet community access to 3D technology in general, with Blender as a core". The foundation provides various resources to support the community formed around using and developing Blender. In particular, it organizes an annual Blender Conference in Amsterdam to discuss plans for

261-401: Is English-language and includes subtitles in over 30 languages. An old man, Proog, guides the young Emo through a giant surreal machine, in which the rooms have no clear transition to each other. After Proog saves Emo from flying plugs in a room consisting of a gigantic telephone switchboard, they run through a dark room filled with electrical cables and flee from a flock of bird-like robots. In

290-833: The Entrepotdok building in Amsterdam, where the Blender Foundation is also located, and is headed by Ton Roosendaal. On 10 April 2008, the Blender Institute released its second film, Big Buck Bunny . Based on the movie, the Blender Institute released its first Open Game project Yo Frankie! , in November 2008. On 30 September 2010 the Blender Institute released its third project, Sintel . In October 2011, Concept/Script Development began for Blender's fourth open film project titled Tears of Steel . Contrary to previous Blender Institute projects, which were 100% computer graphics,

319-609: The Netherlands Media Art Institute . The Foundation raised much of the funding for the project by selling pre-orders of the DVD. Production began in September 2005, under the code-name Orange by a team of seven artists and animators from around the world. It was later named Machina , and then finally renamed to Elephants Dream in reference to a Dutch tradition whereby parents might abruptly end children's bedtime stories with

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348-412: The Blender user community, as well as finished products that could be widely used for other purposes. On 18 March 2006, the Blender Foundation released its first film, Elephants Dream . In response to the success of Elephants Dream , the Blender Foundation established the Blender Institute to support future software and content development projects. The Blender Institute operates out of a studio within

377-614: The EEVEE render engine. It was released on July 30, 2019. It premiered at Eye Film in the Netherlands on 28 October 2021 and was publicly released on Blender Studio and YouTube on 29 October 2021. Elephants Dream Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina ) is a 2006 Dutch animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software . The film

406-494: The Grease Pencil tools. Sprite Fright , a short animated comedy-horror was announced on 9 November 2020 and released on 29 October 2021. Charge was released the 15 December 2022. Pet Projects was announced on 19 January 2023. The official release title is "WING IT!" and was released the 12 September 2023. Project Gold was announced on 22 May 2023. Many of the new features integrated into Blender 2.5 and beyond were

435-453: The Jury's Prize at Animago 2015, an international conference for 3D animation. In 2013, the second episode of a short animated series Caminandes was released under the Blender Foundation umbrella. In 2016, a third short was released. Hero , the sixth Open Movie Project, was announced in September 2017 and released on 16th April 2018. The technical target for Hero was to use and improve

464-467: The concept of a special place/machine, that he tries to "show" to Emo. When Emo doesn't accept his story, Proog becomes desperate and hits him. It's a parable of human relationships really—You can substitute many ideas (money, religion, social institutions, property) instead of Proog's machine—the story doesn't say that creating ideas is bad, just hints that it is better to share ideas than force them on others. There are lots of little clues/hints about this in

493-489: The focus of Tears of Steel was the combination of live action footage with computer generated characters and environments. The live action footage was shot with a high-end Sony F65 camera. The project was released on 26 September 2012. The Gooseberry Open Movie Project is the fifth Open Movie Project initiated by the Blender Foundation. Ton Roosendal announced the project in January 2010. The most ambitious project yet, one of

522-498: The future of Blender, as well as staffing a booth to represent Blender at SIGGRAPH . Donations are also used to maintain the Blender website and hire developers to improve the Blender software. The foundation is funded entirely by donations from entrepreneurs , companies, and users. Many video game publishers such as Epic Games , Ubisoft , Activision , Valve , and NetEase have made contributions. Nvidia , Intel , AMD , Meta , Microsoft , Adobe , and Google have also funded

551-505: The introduction of a sneezing elephant. The primary purpose of the project was to field test , develop and showcase the capabilities of Blender, demonstrating what can be done with the software in organizing and producing quality content for films. During the film's development, several new features (such as an integrated node-based compositor , hair and fur rendering, rewritten animation system and render pipeline , and many workflow tweaks and upgrades) were added to Blender specifically for

580-421: The machine is like clockwork and could destroy them both if one wrong move is made. The two enter an elevator that is catapulted through a series of apertures by a pair of mechanical slats. Proog instructs Emo to close his eyes as they ascend to an empty dark void. Proog asks Emo what he sees, and is pleased by Emo's reply that he sees nothing as they plunge rapidly into the next room. A projector creates an image of

609-530: The machine's absurdity and manifests the twisted versions of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (in the form of mechanical roots) and the Colossus of Rhodes (in the form of gigantic hands), which threaten to destroy Proog's constructed world. Proog knocks Emo unconscious with his cane and causes his creations to disappear, Proog desperately asserts to Emo that the machine exists. In May 2005, Ton Roosendaal announced

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638-409: The movie—many little things have a meaning—but we're not very "tight" with it, because we are hoping people will have their own ideas about the story, and make a new version of the movie. In this way (and others) we tie the story of the movie with the "open movie" idea." Elephants Dream received the award for "Best Short Film" at the first European 3D Film Festival in 2010. In 2008, Elephants Dream

667-449: The next room, Emo is tempted to answer a ringing phone, but Proog stops him and reveals a trap. The room is also occupied by a robot resembling a self-operating typewriter, which Emo appears to laugh at. The next room is a large abyss from which metal supports appear from below; Proog nimbly dances across the abyss on the supports, while Emo casually walks along and does not seem to notice the stilts supporting him. Proog explains to Emo that

696-576: The primary goals is for the Gooseberry Open Movie Project to be the first full-length film produced by the Blender Institute. Work on the film, called Cosmos Laundromat , began in 2014 (although a release date was not yet announced). A ten-minute pilot, entitled Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle was released on YouTube and Netflix on 10 August 2015 and premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival on 24 September 2015. The pilot won

725-602: The project. In 2019, Epic Games awarded the Blender Foundation a US$ 1,200,000 grant as part of their Epic MegaGrants initiative. Founder and CEO of Epic Games Tim Sweeney stated, "Open tools, libraries and platforms are critical to the future of the digital content ecosystem" and that "Blender is an enduring resource within the artistic community, and we aim to ensure its advancement to the benefit of all creators." The Blender Foundation maintains several community-driven "Open Projects" through its affiliated Blender Institute program, including several freely licensed films and

754-462: The project. The bulk of computer processing power for rendering the film was donated by the BSU Xseed, a 2.1 TFLOPS Apple Xserve G5 -based supercomputing cluster at Bowie State University . It reportedly took 125 days to render, consuming up to 2.8GB of memory for each frame. Elephants Dream was released on March 24, 2006. The film itself, along with the other Blender Foundation “open movies,”

783-400: The project. The primary piece of software used to create the film was Blender ; other programs used in production include DrQueue , Inkscape , Seashore , Twisted , Verse , CinePaint , GIMP , OpenEXR , Reaktor , Subversion , Python , Ubuntu , GNOME , and KDE . All of the software, except Reaktor, was free and open-source. The project was jointly funded by the Blender Foundation and

812-652: Was included in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)'s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit. On May 18, 2006, the film was released for as a direct download and via BitTorrent on the Official Orange Project website, along with all of the production files. Everyone who pre-ordered the DVD before a certain time could have their name listed in the film's credits. The DVD set includes the NTSC and PAL versions on separate discs,

841-523: Was released under the Creative Commons Attribution License , so that viewers may learn from it and use it as long as proper attribution is given. Bassam Kurdali, the director, explained the plot of the film: "The story is very simple—I'm not sure you can call it a complete story even—It is about how people create ideas/stories/fictions/social realities and communicate them or impose them on others. Thus Proog has created (in his head)

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