Sintel, the Durian Open Movie ProjectUpdating the blog has become somewhat a burden… doing a good post can take many hours, and “just dump stuff on the blog” is a bit scary! Nevertheless, here I do an attempt to just dump stuff from our “weekly” folders. Just WIP. No further comments… but I like it! 😉
-Ton-
Yo! Pablo (venomgfx) here, on my debut as Durian Blogposter (sounds cool uh? 😀 )
The past week was awesome!, not only because it was my first one here :P, but also because David came all the way from Toulouse, to help out, and he was a huge help.
Sintel Cabin’s Progress, more detail needed!
Even though its not finished, blogposting wont hurt (hope so!).
On this scene, my work was supposed to be design-model, then light/compo this shot, but since this was my first week, I’ve been told “No need to be completely productive the first few weeks”, great! relief.. so I took some time to learn the workflow and pipeline here, luckily is really similar to how I use to work before and on my personal projects nowadays.
Will you just look at the number of models posted the past couple days on BlendSwap! Check it out!
Hi,
It took me some time to catch up on the Durian team, but I am getting there!
Here is a first rough edit and an indication of how the documentary/making of Sintel will look like. Of course much more aspects will be covered (concept art, modelling, animation, production up and downs etc…) there are still some weeks to go before the end of the project and many more things to film…
Ali
Over the past few weeks I’ve started doing “Layout” work for Sintel. Layout is the stage where we figure out the basic character blocking (in this case choreography), camera angles and movement, as well as the timing and rhythm of the edit. At this point the sets and environments are also roughed out in low-poly form. The design of the environments greatly influence blocking, as well as composition/shot design.
Much of these decisions have already been sketched out in storyboards, but layout makes the parameters of sequences much more concrete.
Here is what the opening scene currently looks like:
Much is subject to change. (Especially the first shot.) Predub sound by Jan Morgenstern. I welcome your feedback!
–Colin
Freshly arrived from across the Atlantic: Jean-Sebastien Guillemette from Montreal!
He’s going to help us putting the film together: modeling and design, scene layouts, lighting, render, composites. Exciting 🙂
Oh, and I’m back from a 2-week’s holidays in La Palma, Canarian Islands. I’ve spent a week on slowing down and relaxing, and a week on Blender 2.5 code (drag’n’drop). 🙂 One one of my walks there (breathtakingly beautiful green island) I came by Dragon Trees. These are very ancient long living trees that are an important symbol in our film too…
At the studio we have to be able to maintain and work collaboratively with a large number of files. For those who are interested, I made a little tour of the system we have set up as well as the process within Blender to link in groups from other .blend files.
Word of caution: when working with files that reference other files, be *very* careful with filenames and filepaths! Moving files around or renaming things can result in quite a headache.
–Colin
Edit: Here’s a link to Blender-aid, the content management tool for Blender I mentioned in the video.
