Sintel, the Durian Open Movie Project

Do you recall Sintel’s line “Hey.. we are almost done.. shh.. sit still!” from the sneak peek video we posted long ago? 🙂

We’re working to get this out as soon as possible.

Join the waiting and after party with the Durian crew!

We’ll be at #blenderdurian on IRC (FreeNode).
You can also join the party via: http://graphicall.org/sintel/

Thank you all community, you’re awesome. Let’s raise the hype!
An extremely excited Durian Team 🙂

No words needed really, thanks everyone for giving us a great evening!
(Picture by Mike Pan)

Hi all,

Just got a note that the 450 seats for the premiere all have been sold or reserved. I don’t know if you can get on a waiting list there… best is to contact the festival itself then. Alternative is to attend the thursday evening screening.

-Ton-

If you visit the premier in Utrecht, Monday 27 September, here’s the schedule:

19:15h Team arrives for original Red Carpet event at Rembrandt theatre. Screaming fans and flashing cameras welcome!
19:30h Short intro of film by me.
19:33h Sintel screening
19:48h I call the makers to the front for a round of applause
19:50h Start of main film “Happily ever after” (“Lang en gelukkig”)

21:15h Everyone welcome to join with team in the Festival Pavilion,  close-by on Neude.

-Ton-

Well you never know… Amsterdam can flood or so. But we target at next week thursday for spreading our film online! Work on the DVD with the loads of extras still continues, when this goes to be duplicated I’ll notify you!

Official press release can be loaded here.

It’ll be epic!

-Ton-

double awesomeness all the way

We can haz poster? yes we can haz!

Ton, Soenke and I just came back from checking a proof print of the poster, and it looks marvelous!, bright, great contrast, nice subtle colors, not extremely saturated, right like on the screen.

The process of making this poster started months ago with some ideas David had, then we had this task of getting the actual movie done and forgot about the poster, so the actual work started last week.

Concept by David, characters posed by Lee, lighting/render by me, and amazing paint over by David! 😀

Keep reading to know more about the making of!

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And now it’s official, the new 3D world october edition is available throughout Europe. USA and other countries follow a month later I heard.

This issue has 6 pages of Sintel graphics, screenies and interviews with the crew. There’s even a Big Buck Bunny mention on the list of “memorable shorts made in past years”!

The “Return of Blender” has been choosen by 3D World as a good cover slogan I guess. We all know we were never gone, but we we’ve been very busy indeed! 🙂

-Ton-