Durian

Hello!

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. Yesterday was the last day of the Blender Conference and we’re all still recovering!

But we haven’t forgotten about you. We have a number of posts coming up to go over some of the stuff we showed off at the Durian talk on Sunday.

But first things first. For those of you who missed the live stream, we revealed a lot about the movie–including the (working) title!

Photos by Dolf Veenvliet

BAM! Congrats to “D” for guessing the title right. You deserve a prize! Perhaps a free DVD?

And we also revealed the final character design for our main character– whose name, coincidentally, is Sintel as well!

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BAM! Done by the amazing David Revoy of course.

Here’s the video I slapped together to kick off the talk:

Blender Conference Intro Video from Project Durian on Vimeo.

And here’s a quick video to introduce the work we’ve done on the first minute of the film! It’s rough, but hopefully gives you a glimpse of some of the stuff we’ve been doing. All of this material has already been cut– but we feel this has been an excellent exercise.

Durian First Minute - 01 from Project Durian on Vimeo.

Also check out the PDF of this sequence in first draft of the script!

Expect more updates from us soon.

–Colin

Directorial Address 01 from Project Durian on Vimeo.

–Colin

Welp, this week has been entirely dedicated to story and coming up with a final script, so it’s taken me some time to wade through the footage from the preproduction week.

Finally had some time to churn it out today. A bit long, but check it out!

Preproduction Workshop from Project Durian on Vimeo.

As a preview of what to expect in the Durian DVD box - and most probably also an additional title in our “Open Movie Workshop” tutorial DVD series, our concept artist David Revoy made this incredible cool time-lapse video of a concept art painting. His workflow reveals great tips and tricks, a must see for everyone who’s in awe about watching people with artistic skills, and for every artist who is interested to learn from the masters!

Click on the image to watch the vimeo clip.

David writes:

This is a time-lapse of a full digital painting illustration with Mypaint / Alchemy and Gimp on Linux.
A large picture of the result ( not full resolution ) can be found here:
http://www.davidrevoy.com/temp/timelapse-pictures/

It was recorded in august 2009 as a technology demo for the 2D open source industry, done with Blender Video sequence editor as well as VLC/Mencoder and (gtk)Recordmydesktop.

Creative commons “attribution 3.0″ (by:)
To Kevin McLeod (Music) - incompetech.com
and David REVOY (video & art ) - davidrevoy.com

Inspiring note for (new) MyPaint developers: the program is great, but would be truly competitive with layer blending:
http://www.davidrevoy.com/temp/mypaint-request/

PS: Some info usually asked :
Alchemy : http://al.chemy.org/download/
Mypaint : http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=6
Gimp : http://gimp.org/downloads/
>gimp-for-painter : http://fr.sourceforge.jp/projects/gimp-painter/releases/?package_id=6799
>Gimp Paint Studio : http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/downloads/list
Linux Mint : http://linuxmint.com/download.php