Elephants Dream review

[Goofster]

Hi folks,

I've written kind-of a review of Elephants Dream at http://www.blenderartists.org , I also posted some photos so check it out!

Roel

[Friday13]

Not bad...a tad short on the actual-movie part (not very descriptive), but I guess it's not easy to review (or describe) something like that. Still saving my pennies so I can buy the DVD!

[Goofster]

Yeah sorry, my first review. Plus the weekend was so nice it overshadowed the actual movie a bit

Roel

[Friday13]

Originally Posted by Goofster Yeah sorry, my first review.

Don't be. We're not all born movie critics........or are we?

Originally Posted by Goofster Plus the weekend was so nice it overshadowed the actual movie a bit

Yeah, I read the last paragraph :P
Wish I'd been there to do all that...oh, and to watch the movie

[patdog]

An even shorter review...

Originally Posted by patdog If I can be so bold... The look of the film is excellent, original and inspiring. The created world is strangely mechanical, and yet organic. It is a rather dark tale, and maybe not everybodies cup of tea. If you're up for some full blown drama it delivers - certainly on the big screen, with explosive sound and Jan Morgenstern's great soundtrack. Found Tygo Gernandt voice excellently fitted to his character, but unfornately Cas Jansen role sounded too much like a made up voice. The character animation was however everything we could be jealous of, though some movements just in the very beginning I thought a bit odd. Well will be watching it again soon. That's enertainment

From Blender general thread 25 March.

[DwarvenFury]

To put it bluntly, if you look at this movie once you’ll probably be stunned by it’s beauty, but it will leave you slightly unsatisfied.

Hey Goofster, could you give us a quick "overview" of what you thought about the movie? Like a star or letter rating, maybe? You listed a negative , and I'm wondering how much you thought it affected the overall quality of the short. Thanks.

DwarvenFury

[JD-multi]

Indeed, Elephants dream was awesome. When I saw the beginning how they did the matrials, shaders, modeling and creating a certain mood, it was just awesome. The quality was top-notch, was this actually created with blender?

All the time that I watched the movie I was thinking, how the hack did they made that? I know it's possible but I thought all the time that I didn't Blendered for ages when I saw the movie. The wires at the beginning were amazing, those machine like creatues 'Awesome' and when elmo begins to freak out, just kickass.

But as each movie there were some few critics I have. The character animation at the beginning was quite odd, but that didn't bothered me. And on certain times I was like, whoow what's going on, that's the actual story? At the end of the movie I knew what exactly the message was, but it took me a long time to figure it out.

Further, the Orange team that went for showing what blender can actually do, well I agree, it's really amazing, and Man!! what did I like the mood in there.

Now where are those tutorials? :P hehe, this is what a lot of people would ask if they got the chance. But I bet that it takes ages to tell us all how it was created, and on a certain way it's also a secret of the artists itself, but wait when I get my hands on that DVD