Comments on: Emo and Proog

Emo and Proog

growabrain — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:09:39 -0800

Elephants Dream - A computer-generated movie made using open source applications

By: jaduncan

jaduncan — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:40:40 -0800

Wow. And Blender code was brought for only €100,000. That was quite the deal for the community.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:47:08 -0800

I note with interest that the only proprietary software they used was Reaktor. Damn, open source audio sucks.

By: StephenV

StephenV — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:01:35 -0800

I don't think I've ever seen a better seeded torrent. 4955 seeders right now and I'm getting over 250KB/s down.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:17:01 -0800

Wow, that was quite well done. But I wonder - Marshall McLuhan-like - how much the medium influences the message. Cybernetic fantasies and nightmares seem to be quite popular with synthetic filmmakers.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:29:27 -0800

Bleh. Visually appealing maybe, but in terms of characters, dialogue, or storyline it was just a confusing ball of mess. I would not hold this up as a very good example of collaborative anything, unless you strictly limit yourself to the visual effect. If you consider 250KB/s fast for a torrent then I think you need to find better torrent sites, because that would be on the slow end if you asked me.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:38:53 -0800

Of course you're not going to tell us WHICH torrent sites because you love to be cool and mysterious and 1337, because you wrongly feel that earns you respect.

By: StephenV

StephenV — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:52:42 -0800

Rhomboid: I was pushing the limits of my wireless connection as it was, so bleh. But I second Jimbob's sentiment. KEKEKE... 1337.

By: Malor

Malor — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:23:05 -0800

The website seems to have died. Does anyone have a link to the .torrent?

By: Malor

Malor — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:24:32 -0800

I did get through finally. Nevermind. :)

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:28:21 -0800

Could someone explain the plot? (Seriously, I don't get it). The rendering was sweet though.

By: martinrebas

martinrebas — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:35:08 -0800

I agree about the torrent speed; I got 2.1 MB/s!

By: Gyan

Gyan — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:40:52 -0800

There's only a vestige of a plot or narrative coherence; the purpose is to showcase the output of open source DCC tools.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 19 May 2006 19:40:49 -0800

I haven't watched it yet but the site is working for me and here's teh torrentz0r.

By: crumbly

crumbly — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:14:54 -0800

These guys have a great visual and conceptual sensibility and obviously awesome technical abilities, but the story, animation, and voice acting? Not so good. How many times did these guys actually read the script before deciding to devote six months of their lives working on it? Because I think they could have fit more "Emmo"s in there had they really been trying.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:17:32 -0800

Visually beautiful. Makes me want to fiddle around with Blender! Is anyone else having trouble with the sync? Lot of lip-flap on my end.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:18:24 -0800

Also, why did they have to name that kid Emo? I automatically didn't like him.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:36:11 -0800

65,509 peers? Jesus Christ. And I thought Doctor Who torrents were popular. (I, uh, haven't finished downloading it yet, so I can't comment on the animation itself...)

By: robla

robla — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:20:04 -0800

If you're like me, and you get halfway through this thinking "I sure hope this is leading to something", save yourself a couple minutes and hit stop. It's thoroughly unsatisfying from a plot/story perspective.

By: 13twelve

13twelve — Sat, 20 May 2006 03:08:41 -0800

haha was worth it just to see the 10,000 seeds lol

By: namagomi

namagomi — Sat, 20 May 2006 07:27:43 -0800

I kinda liked it. for what it was trying to be it was ok. I've really seen a lot of worse 3d animation.

By: skallas

skallas — Sat, 20 May 2006 11:50:26 -0800

Let me guess, this started as a Matrix parody (emo sounds a lot line neo) and halfway through someone said, "Screw parody lets write our own story!" Still looks like the matrix to me, especially the scene with the phone.

By: Drexen

Drexen — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:33:34 -0800

Hmmm. I couldn't really get anything out of the plot either. I mean, it's a short film, so to some extent you'd expect there to be a lot of loose ends which it's up to the audience to tie up... but in this case the threads just seem to tangle and not go anywhere. (e.g. what's up with him closing/not closing his eyes?). The dialogue style and delivery, and the movement of the characters are also very weird in a fairly offputting way. Nonetheless, I, uh.. don't hate it. And it is very pretty - at the least, a good proof of concept for Blender, which I'll probably look into. They needed a good writer/director to pull the whole thing together though - it could have been cool with a few fairly minor changes, I think (if you consider a new script a minor change).

By: Nyrath

Nyrath — Sat, 20 May 2006 15:30:54 -0800

I have done some work with Blender, and it is an almost commercial grade program. Not bad for freeware. Some complain about the user interface, but I found (as do most people) that if you work at it for about a week, it will suddenly become intuitive. Just remember: one hand on the keyboard, the other on the mouse.

By: zouhair

zouhair — Sat, 20 May 2006 16:10:59 -0800

Ecerything is great on this little movie except the story, it sucks!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 22 May 2006 08:20:32 -0800

question, since the site seems to be in extremely low bandwidth mode: what did they edit with? i was not aware of any even remotely usable (for more than crappy desktop editing) open source editing software.

By: 13twelve

13twelve — Tue, 23 May 2006 15:30:46 -0800

Ok so I've now watched it and its crap.

By: webfanatic

webfanatic — Sat, 27 May 2006 23:14:31 -0800

Couldn't they have spent a bit of effort on the writing?