The open movie project once again finished a wonderful shortmovie using blender. It’s hard to compare it to elephants dream directly, because these two are very different. Big Buck Bunny contains a lot more humor, it’s really funny to see. Go and watch it online or download it 
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The short movie Elephants Dream was exclusively created with open source software. It’s available for free on the internet. The movie is done by the orange movie project. The old guy reminds of Agent Smith from the Matrix, especially the scene where Agent Smith describes the Matrix and its perfection. The old guy too describes how perfect the machine is. Big parts of the movie were created in blender.
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Blender 3D is a growing open source project and a very high quality piece of software. Blender is hard to learn in the beginning, you’ll find people saying that all over. But it’s worth it! Thats why you should use the numerous wikis, ebooks and tutorials found on the net. The active community sure will help you too. You can use Blender for all kinds of 3D purposes like animation, single frame rendering, simple illustration, vector based logos and much more. The possibility of python scripting is pretty popular too. The current version is 2.44 and licensed under the GPL.
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