Elephants Dream

*Elephants Dream* is the story of two unusual characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The older character, Proog, serves as a tour guide and protector, enthusiastically showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical apprentice, Emo. As their journey progresses, signs emerge that the machine may not be what Proog believes it to be, and his guidance takes on a more desperate tone. *Elephants Dream* is a story about communication and fiction, intentionally left open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated "Open movie." The film is released under a Creative Commons license, along with all the production files used to create it (approximately 7 gigabytes of data). The movie was made using the free and open-source animation software Blender, along with other open-source tools, allowing it to be remade, remixed, and repurposed with only a computer and the data from the DVD or a download.