Sintel

[efflux]

Amazing new Blender movie:

http://www.sintel.org/

[red_planet]

Jolly good effort I thought...

Very good showcase for 2.5

Rgds

Chris

[reck]

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.

[rcallicotte]

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. 

[Henry Blewer]

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.

[rcallicotte]

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?

[Henry Blewer]

It depends on who did the build (compile) of the source. The current Blender.org release uses the old renderer.

[rcallicotte]

Do you know of a build that has the Sintel renderer?  I thought this would only come on the Sintel DVD.

It depends on who did the build (compile) of the source. The current Blender.org release uses the old renderer.

[Henry Blewer]

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.

[jbest]

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