David left the Blender institute
on November 26th, 2009, by aliDavid Revoy, concept artist for Durian, finished his time at the Blender institute in Amsterdam and went back to France on tuesday, november 24th.
David left the Blender institute from Project Durian on Vimeo.
-Ali-
November 26th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Aww! Best of luck in your future endeavours david!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:15 am
i think you mean the 24th 😀
must be kind of sad leaving…
November 26th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Merci David
November 26th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Thanks MeshWeaver I just updated that date.
Yes very sad, luckily we still have access to him in small amounts from now, and David has made so much fantastic artwork that will keep us busy for months.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Sniff… Bye, David! :'(
Thank you for all your awesome work!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:45 am
…And if I wasn’t following David work I never would try Mypaint (which is awesome), still would be embarrassed by using Blender block models as references for painting and still wouldn’t be paying enough attention to the concept drawing part of movie making 🙂
Thanks David! Great work!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Always sad to see people leaving, especially the cool fun ones you’ve worked together with for a while. 🙂
Anyway’s as Matt said, best of luck in future endeavors, David & cheers!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:48 am
…Ho! And let’s not forget, the most important of all:
I still would have the same wallpaper in my desktop 😀
November 26th, 2009 at 1:51 am
David, the Italian community thanks you!
Goodbye!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:56 am
This means Concept Art is finished??
November 26th, 2009 at 1:57 am
yeah, dude! Thanks for the aweinspiring art and showing us MyPaint. 😀
November 26th, 2009 at 1:58 am
And I didn’t even meet him in person! *softly plays “Johnny I hardly knew ye” on his whistle*
Thanks for all the inspiring work so far, David. Good luck with your future projects!
November 26th, 2009 at 2:45 am
boohoo i can’t stand sad leavings :(…
i hope david will be back for some time now and then…after all he left a great mark on sintel and the blog,
lets remind the great timelapse paint, the wallpapers mypaint and the coloring contest…
i bet it was a huge time with the team too bad you’D have to let him go …
but i bet he’s gonna be back later maybe for the movie and party…’and then there will be cake!’
We gonna miss you Deevad, take care and thanks for all the stuff!
November 26th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Even though it’s sad to see him go, that was an awesome movie.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:12 am
It was sort of sad to watch. :'(
November 26th, 2009 at 3:19 am
nooooo!!!!!!!!!
please dont go!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Thanks for everything, David. You’re awesome!!
November 26th, 2009 at 3:35 am
David, by the things we’ve seen until now, everyone in the community can say you did and amazing concept work.
This stage of production is crucial to achieve a good final result, and you’ve accomplished it like few. Thanks for your inspiring work! 🙂
November 26th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Thanks for your contributions David!
Will he be back in the next open projects?
Only time will tell.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:06 am
I am amazed you can pack that much talent into one person! It was a huge pleasure getting to know you even in this small way. I for one am certainly better off for it.
Thank you.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:21 am
It was truly awesome to have you on the team David. You’re a real inspiration. You’ve got oodles of talent and I’m very blessed to have learnt even a little from you! Thanks for everything you’ve done!
November 26th, 2009 at 6:22 am
thanks for everything david, you really gave this project the look and feel it really needed, thank you and good luck 🙂
November 26th, 2009 at 8:02 am
no! it’s too soon to leave!
oh well, like theeth said:
Un gros merci David 🙂
November 26th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Sype! Ahhhhhhhhh! Proprietry software in the Open Movie! Ahhhhhhh! 😉
Seriously though, David, thanks for sharing your amazing talents, ideas and artworks with the other talented folks to bring us an amazing film. Together you all are going to bring Blender and free software / culture to more people than ever before.
You rock, and all the best. Looking forward to hearing about your experiments with painting in Krita, too. 🙂
November 26th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Well, hopefully before then but I’ll have to see you at the premiere!
As soon as we finish up the little bit that’s left on production of course.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Good luck Devid , this project very best ,Is observable
November 26th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Bonne voyage David. The french connection leaves Durian. I can only agree with many comments. It was an inspiration to see, how concept art can be done and how it can be used for preparing and guiding the stage of story planing.
Your designs did show great detail, and you were able to create a hugh amount of oncept art in a short time. Congratulations. Vive la france 😉
I would be interested to hear from you, how easy/difficult it was for you to adapt “your” style of drawing within such a large group of people, and to make their “wishes” come true as designs. I think this can be a big challenge. As we saw in the discussion, everybody has a different feeling how much anime or reality the concept design has to represent.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:56 am
sheesh, this video couldn’t be any gayer even if colin and david were cowboyboots and rode off into the sunset together! 😉
November 26th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Bye David, thanks for all the good artworks and for making me aware of Mypaint (that I use now in my daily job). 🙂
Best of luck.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am
This totally makes me weep.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Hey first post from Ali, great video you posted!
Note for all: Ali is a documentary maker hanging out in our studio 2-3 times per week. He will be posting more of these fun & cool video snippets.
We will all mist David a lot.. he’s been of incredible value! We knew he was only available for 3 months. His seat is going to be taken now by 3D artist Ben Dansie, arriving monday, and that’s good news!
-Ton-
November 26th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
A sad moment because a very good artist is returning to home, but!
… think at this, David, you tailored the sails of this project, you freed them to the winds, and now the boat can set its course for the great adventure your preciously inspiring works let us foresee beyond the mist!
Ahoy, me haerty, weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Thanks David for everything you shared with the community through project Durian.
But don’t think you will have free time now ! All the community bookmarked your website, and will cover you with questions ! 😉
November 26th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Yarr! It be a seaworthy themed comment of reply! Keep em’ coming there lad!
November 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Bye David!!!
You taught us a lot as well as delivered some truly awesome art works!
Look forward to seeing more from you in a lesser capacity!
November 26th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
una persona con tanto talento como usted tiene que pasar por muchos proyectos y compartir su forma tan especial de hacer arte, adelante! senor David todos estamos contentos por su trabajo en esta pelicula y sin duda alguna le seguiremos viendo en este medio alcansando niveles cada vez mas altos.
buena suerte y un saludo en nombre de todos los Mexicanos que creen que blender es el presente y futuro de las bellas artes.
November 26th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Thanks for all the good work. Your artwork are now my wallpaper so : MERCI!!
November 26th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
David,
Partir, c’est mourir un peu. But you leave some extraordinary trail behind. Thanks for the inspiration.
November 26th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
WOW, what a beautiful project. Durian is not only a project with freesoftware , is friendship and it feels in the video. good luck David. Have a good flight to France. We have to talk a lot about this experience. Hope GPS was useful for you. this way i feel part of project too. also you can check my MyPaint tools more in deep. So go David , and welcome home! ;D
November 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
eheheh, welcome back in Toulouse David! J’espère que tu viendras nous parler un peu de Durian et de ton travail fantastique chez les amis du BUG! 😉
Is Ali a french guy? Because the man who is behind the camera speaks french very well at the end of the video! 😀
November 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
David, it was a very rare unique pleasure to meet you at the conference this year. As I told you, your tutorials are really inspiring (even the photoshop ones) 🙂
It touched me to recognize the fairy image from your tutorial and to realize I was humbly in front of one of the digital masters I felt compelled to pursuit (in the naive wish of developing talent some day).
Thanks for being such a nice generous person (and a great skilled artist for that matter).
Au revoir
November 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Thanks a lot David , you 2d work is great and you are a big example for other artists.
November 26th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
I want Colins beanie(or what ever it is called)!! Can’t you have some sort of contest and have it as a prise? 🙂
November 26th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
@Durian Twitter,
Final shots already?! Wow!
November 26th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Thanks for everything David.
You’re great.
Ben Dansie will never replace David. 😛
Haha. Sorry Ben. You’re a worthy Durian member. I hope at least. I wish you good luck.
And good luck to you too David.
November 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Noooooo ! Pourquoi est-ce tu part si tôt ?! Why are you leaving us so soon ?!
November 26th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
yo creo que lo echaron de blender
November 27th, 2009 at 5:09 am
“This is the true story… of seven(12!) strangers… picked to live in a house(STUDIO)…work together and have their lives taped… to find out what happens… when people stop being polite… and start getting real…The BLENDER World.”
this is the blender reality show 🙂
November 27th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Merci beaucoup David! Especially to have shared your tools and work process with us. Alchemy was a real revelation – at least for me. I have become an addict.
Good luck for all your projects!
November 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Very sad video… bouhouhouuuu lol
Thanks for all the posts, at works, speed patings and tuts you did, very good job !
Dommage que tu parte… (sans indiscretion, where are you going ? ^^)
Quand reviendra tu en 2010 ? =P
Bravo et merci 😉
November 27th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
thanks for all of you artwork, and for the nice time during the bconf!
November 27th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Haha, D has a point, final shots eh?
November 27th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
hmmm that sad, … sniff ¡¡¡
November 27th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Thanks all for the comments 🙂 It was really great and warm to read all of them back to home in my little home studio.
For various answer;
– Ali speak french and at the end of the video and I answer ” thanks you” to bring me in car with my huge bagage to the airport.
– I think be back at the institute in February for some day to check Durian works and be on page with the team.
– I leaved to go back to my freelance works, my wife and to teach in january at the School the Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard (university-level higher education institution) the digital painting. http://www.computer-graphics.be/
Some news :
For the moment , I get focused in my DVD tutorial for the Blender E-shop “Chaos and Evolution” (as weel as my website update ), I received a good microphone ; got an amazing sound with audacity.
My good surprise is Kdenlive, I will continue to learn a lot this video editing software very professional this week-end ; it’s more fast for my workflow than to use “Blender video sequence editor” cause I want to have a lot of subtitle as I did in the first Timelapse. Next week I meet one of the Krita developpers at home to learn more about the project.
Thanks all , friends ! And good luck to the Durianer at the Institute on Sintel 😉
November 29th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Welcome back in FRANCE David !
December 1st, 2009 at 9:38 am
No! David is gone….. so sad, and no more painting tutorials using open source software :'(
I really like your website David, please update it 🙂 Also, I’ll gladly buy a DVD from you in the Blender e-shop! Any idea about the release date?
Bonjour depuis la Nouvelle Calédonie 😀
December 30th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
merci David pour ton travail vraiment magnifique, et je sais que le film sera beau avec tes belles recherches de personnages et de couleurs..
merci aussi pour tes tutos qui me font avancer coté graphisme .
bonne chance pour tes futurs projets ++