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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: efflux on October 01, 2010, 08:11:08 AM

Title: Sintel
Post by: efflux on October 01, 2010, 08:11:08 AM
Amazing new Blender movie:

http://www.sintel.org/
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: red_planet on October 01, 2010, 08:16:12 AM
Jolly good effort I thought...

Very good showcase for 2.5

Rgds

Chris
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: reck on October 02, 2010, 06:02:37 PM
Completely different to big buck bunny, a lot darker. I was quite impressed with the amount of details they had in some scenes when viewed in 1080p.

Pretty amazing what you can achieve with a bit of free software and some talented artists.
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: rcallicotte on October 04, 2010, 09:24:41 AM
Amazing what was done.  All of the changes these artists made to Blender along the way of this production will eventually make it into Blender. 
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: Henry Blewer on October 04, 2010, 09:29:28 AM
A great many of the tools have made it. The dragon's fire for example. Also the render engine was rewritten to handle lighting better. There has been a better effort to support external renderers.
I would like to see tgo output from Blender.
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: rcallicotte on October 04, 2010, 11:40:30 AM
From the Blender 2.54 development page -

# Big improvements - This software has been used extensively in production of the Durian open movie project "Sintel".
# Feature complete - Although some of the 2.5 targets have been postponed, such as multi-window support showing multiple scenes, a full RNA data level dependency graph, or radial menus.


I also thought some of the rendering engine was yet to be added from the Sintel crew.  Maybe I misunderstood?
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: Henry Blewer on October 04, 2010, 12:58:05 PM
It depends on who did the build (compile) of the source. The current Blender.org release uses the old renderer.
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: rcallicotte on October 04, 2010, 02:04:44 PM
Do you know of a build that has the Sintel renderer?  I thought this would only come on the Sintel DVD.

Quote from: njeneb on October 04, 2010, 12:58:05 PM
It depends on who did the build (compile) of the source. The current Blender.org release uses the old renderer.
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: Henry Blewer on October 05, 2010, 08:13:39 AM
Try looking on BlenderNation in the dev area. There are many builds out there. Some are better than others. I have been playing with the 'official' release a little.  Sorry I can't be more specific.
Title: Re: Sintel
Post by: jbest on October 23, 2010, 03:07:32 PM
I thought it was an great movie. I wasn't too fond of the plot but the animation was quite fantastic. I also thought that the people looked kinda cartoony, but stuff like the mountains, dragons, and other things besides people looked pretty darn realistic. It was a great job, especially using a free program  8)