Elephants Dream is a computer-generated short film that is the realization of a different kind of movie-making…an Open Source Movie.

It is the culmination of 8 months of work by a team of 7 artists and animators, and was built entirely using Open Source tools, Blender being one of the more high-profile apps used.

You can download the movie and all production materials via bittorrent, or simply buy the full DVD set on their website. Another interesting side benefit of this being an Open Source project was the open release of all the original sources, lossless versions of the video and audio. The movie is available as 20GB worth of FLAC files and a PNG sequence.

The Wikipedia entry lists some interesting stats…
*The film is 11 minutes, with credits.
*Rendering took 125 days to complete, each frame consuming 2.8GB of memory.
*Most of the rendering was done on and donated by the BSU Xseed supercomputing cluster at Bowie State University. Xseed is a 2.1Tflop cluster based on 224 Mac Xserve machines.