This is Elephant’s Dream. It’s an open-source movie project that has been going on for about a year. The production team made everything they used in the movie publicly available- from the models they used to the sound effects. They also have a DVD for sale.

Not only would the movie be made using Open Source software, but the contents themselves were to be Open as well: all of the digital assets and production files are released under a Creative Commons license, allowing everyone to see how the movie was made, make changes to it and create a new, derived movie. This will be an invaluable archive not only for the Blender community, but for the 3D community in general.

website: http://orange.blender.org/download

downloads: http://www.elephantsdream.org/

blendernation blog: http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/18/the-worlds-first-open-movie-released/

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http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html

I found this page yesterday. It’s a very nice resource for information and inspiration. They have information of every artist in Europe from the 12th to mid-19th centuries. They also have images and information of the artists’ works. It even plays classical background music which adds to the viewing experience (Though it only plays in the Home page). And if you need to find a specific artist but you don’t know their names, it has a search engine that let’s you specify the artist’s school, period, and profession to make searching easier.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently the periods of Neoclassicism and Romanticism were also included.

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Rachel has some very nice illustrations on her site. She has a unique touch on each of her illustration. Her style is not common compared to other vectore illustrations. Very good taste in color. *Respect*

I was surfing around and I stumbled on this site. Amazing portfolio of photographs! When I first saw it, “Holy shit” came to mind. :-O There are no high resolution images though… -_-
Check it out http://www.durhamtownship.com/portfolio/

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Here is an interesting article:

This is my latest and most ambitious digital painting of a Chicago scene unveiled at Photoshop World in Miami on March 22, 2006.
It is a panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline.  

The rest was created in Photoshop.
• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.