Sintel
└ posted on Saturday, 9 October 2010, by Novil
Sintel has nothing to do with the largest cpu manufacturer in the world, but is the title of an animated short film by the Blender Foundation. The visuals are really impressive for an open source project with a budget of only €400,000. The touching story is about the girl Sintel as she goes on a quest around the world to find a baby dragon she calls “Scales”. You can watch the movie in HD on YouTube or download it on its website.
Hm. I’d have described it as tragic, rather than touching. An emotionally powerful little story, and astonishing animation and rendering, but definitely not a feelgood-happy-ending film.
Thanks for raising it’s profile, the makers deserve the publicity.
Thanks for posting this. Blender really is an amazing program. Someone should create a Blender model of Woo and do a walk test. I’m saying someone else because I have no time right now.
It’s awesome that the Blender Foundation has been doing something like this! Even more awesome is that they’re releasing the source files on DVD so people can learn and/or play with them. Great promotion for the software.
I’ve been planning on learning the software eventually. Tried once, but then switched to Second Life for 3D modeling when learning on that blew right past my learning on Blender. Hopefully with Second Life bringing new import capabilities soon, that’ll drive me to get back into Blender. I’ll need the greater capabilities as time goes on.
@ brostudios:
YES. It must be done! Hopefully somebody with great skills at adding fur! My Blender skills so far have only built a snow man, so I think building models of my favorite characters is a great goal for me to strive for(especially if I use them as cameos in the background, lol!). This is definitely something I’d enjoy making, as soon as I learn how.
My brother showed me this too!
It’s beautiful, though I really hate that they used the “collapsing cave” thing. There was no reason for that to happen other than to force her to leave the dragon behind.
Beautiful story, and a reminder hubris doesn’t ignore even the journeys of plucky girls. I will say I had it figured that was Scales a second into her seeing him in the cave, but I won’t hold it to say that it made her stupid. Foolish maybe, but she does come away knowing better and with a second chance even. The old man did say that weapon was bad juju. Shoulda left it behind.
@ Garrett Williams:
Well it will be a happier story for sure. At least until Larissa comes along and burns the forest down. 😀
The old man did say the weapon did shed much innocent blood… among them, scales now.
May that beastly weapon lay broken under the rocks, forever.
wow, that looks like it would be an epic cinematic for a final fantasy game (or something in that genre). Epic.
Awesome!! Loved the fact that since she never gets a good look at herself it never dawns on her that both her and Scales are growing older and, in his case, up. This is amazing, but I wouldn’t waste it on a video game. Don’t get me wrong, I love the FF games, but something like this deserves a fully fleshed out story. And not something that will get a bunch of sequels and take away from the original story, something decent. Love this!!
feel free to post other things you find like thus, I really enjoyed it.
Ummm. Sintel.
Is Blender Foundation related to Alcatel somehow?
@ Ician:
No. Why?
@ FuRrY321:
presumably – without having looked it up – they are themselves related to “Simtel”?
There are only so many names in the world though. I don’t recall seeing Alcatel on the credits, but Divx was… 😉
Quite an interesting little movie though, I’d place my vote in the “tragic” camp as well. Excellently done, could do with a little work on the performance capture but an excellent example of what can be done with open source tools these days.
Wonder how long it would take to render something like that to DVD quality on my everyday desktop PC?
i watch the movie about few months ago..men..it was very touching..