DVDs arrived and packed for shipping
on October 23rd, 2010, by TonDV
Ds arrived yesterday, and they’re awesome! 4 DVD box, tightly packed so it should arrive everywhere without scratches.
Today we had a packing party here.ย Order total was 3300 copies already, and each needed to be packed, and sorted by country and sometimes zip code. Luckily there was enough help and it was excellently prepared by our shop team Anja and Anne. With ย Dolf, Beorn, Ali, Pablo and Lee + myself, Anja and Anne, it was a fun day and quite a breeze!
Monday TNT post picks it up, and by tuesday and later people can expect it in their mailboxes. Europe should get it within a week, rest of world 2 weeks.
We’re all curious to hear feedback on the product, but we’re definitely proud of it. Feels like a real closure now, said Beorn. And that’s it, although we’ll do another Durian spectacle on the Blender Conference next week! ๐
-Ton-
October 23rd, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I can’t wait for the DVDs to arrive!
October 23rd, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Thanks a lot for the hard work guys….
Since I am Out of europe, have to wait for 2 weeks. ๐
But , yay!!! finally shipping.. ๐ ๐
October 23rd, 2010 at 7:29 pm
My son and I are excited one getting one. It’s been a long year waiting but it was worth the wait. So what does it take to move 3300 disk boxes to the BF. Too trucks?
October 23rd, 2010 at 7:33 pm
amazing…the pics looks just amazing and now im only waiting for receive my 4 dvd sets yeah…
October 23rd, 2010 at 7:42 pm
One week! Two weeks!
So terribly long!!!
๐
October 23rd, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Looking forward to geting my disks and seeing all the content, i can’t wait to show my family on the big tv ๐
October 23rd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Great news ! Thanks a lot for your amazing work ! I really love the movie, and I’m sure that there are very interesting Blender secrets in these DVDs !
October 23rd, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Wow, da’s geen kattenpis! (as we say in Dutch, don’t try to translate it, please! :P)
Good to hear that you had a lot more fun than the employees of TNT itself! ๐
Quite awesome to know that so many discs contain my name!
This all looks great, can’t wait! (luckily I live in the Netherlands, so I don’t have to wait very long)
October 23rd, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Save a copy for me! (I’ll get it in the conference yay)
October 23rd, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Guys, don’t sit on the DVD’s, especially you Pablo!
LOL
Well done Guys!
October 23rd, 2010 at 9:57 pm
looks great;)
I was waiting for it for a long time. I can’t wait to touch it :p
October 23rd, 2010 at 10:38 pm
I hope this time my former colleagues from TNT try to tread the package with some respect. So many cd’s/dvd’s/books/magazines were delivered all bent, crooked, cracked, torn and such. I hope at least the package will fit in a normal sized mailbox, although that isn’t a guarantee that it will be delivered undamaged.
Besides that little rant about TNT, I’m eagerly awaiting this treat! ๐
October 23rd, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Really nice pictures! It does feel like a closure ๐
Cheers!
October 24th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Although, I was waiting for this message, I didn’t dare to expect it today.
Thank you very much!
October 24th, 2010 at 1:11 am
Wow! I’m really looking forward to receiving my box.
Thank you for everything guys.
ps: when does the new project start???
October 24th, 2010 at 1:13 am
When is this gonna be released in the internet like BBB?
October 24th, 2010 at 4:57 am
vamooOOO!!
se vienen los dvds !!!!
thanks!
October 24th, 2010 at 5:23 am
YAY-Yuh! After over a year of waiting DVDs are en route! (laughs giddily)
October 24th, 2010 at 6:29 am
Can’t wait till the conference. I’m in New York, so I’ll probably be flying one way while my dvd is flying the other. My grandma will get the mail and say “What on earth did he order now?”
One more week to the conference. Woohoo!
@jay – “en route” is a different film – lol
October 24th, 2010 at 6:50 am
@blendercomp: it shoudl start around next year hopefully (it will never start right after teh lst one finishes.
@IronHaul: I would assume so.
October 24th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Amazing what one can do with Gimp these days! What I’m not in denial! it’s just too good to be true, so it must be the pictures are a trick!
Plus all those people packaging together, would you believe it?!
And 4 Discs, yeah right! as if TNT had the capacity to handle that! I mean it won’t even fit on the back of their delivery bikes!
(Great work Guys’n’gals! See you next week at Bconf.)
Also: I know it’s a chore, but ehm, will there be a signing session for the DVD’s at the bconf? XD
October 24th, 2010 at 11:06 am
Yes, very nice dvd set. Can’t wait for it to check all the inclusives. Wederom is het jullie gelukt. Respect you all.
October 24th, 2010 at 11:21 am
That’s great! Really can’t wait! Will this dvdset be delivered by TNT or regoular postal deliver?
October 24th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
– if you attend the Blender Conference, and you didn’t get the DVD yet, you can pickup an extra copy for free at the desk. Bring your order number to make this easy!
– if you get a damaged DVD, just notify the shop and we send a new copy.
– we use Priority mail, and TNT hands this over to local post services for delivery. We recently switched to TNT (we used Spring global mail before) and our experience with them is very good, faster delivery than Spring.
October 24th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Just a question, if you didn’t buy the DVD before, you can’t buy a copy in the conference?
October 24th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
@Paulo Bardes: There’s a market place at the conference, you can buy a copy there. (correct me if I’m wrong)
October 24th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Ty, I hope you are right
October 25th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Will we be able to download the DVD files from the website (I can’t afford to buy the DVDs)?
October 25th, 2010 at 3:07 am
Errol, really, you had a year to save up for it
October 25th, 2010 at 5:08 am
from this side of the world 35 euros means a bit lot of money imagine that in argentina there are people who earn less than 500 dolars a month or even much much less.
do the living is not always easy.
i see blender as a great opportunity for those who barely has resources to acquire a pc and wanted to do digital art or work from it legally
October 25th, 2010 at 7:17 am
yeahhh….. ๐
October 25th, 2010 at 8:21 am
As far as I’m aware, the digital download will be available after the majority of dvd’s are expected to arrive. From memory that is how the other projects worked – it gives those who preordered and supported us the chance to have a look first which I think is fair. We get that not everyone who wants to have a look at the files could purchase one, but the download will be up in due time.
(Correct me if wrong…)
October 25th, 2010 at 9:36 am
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! Can’t wait anymore. I haven’t seen the movie yet. Just waiting for the DVD. I will borrow videprojector from my job and have a good time watching on big screen ๐
October 25th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Holy macaroni.
October 25th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Any plans for bluray?
October 25th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
wow! at least!!!!
congratulations for the great work you all have done in the last year!!
October 25th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Errrr, I was told that we’d be emailed before the packages were sent off. I’ve moved house since I donated and now my copy is no doubt going to the wrong address, one which I don’t have access to anymore. Help?
October 25th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
No, Stephan, you had to sent an email yourself to the Blendershop when you moved. This has been clearly stated on this website a few times. Doesn’t anyone READ anymore before asking the obvious?
October 25th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Indeed, it’s not wise to come up with that now there are sent.
It’s a bit like already seeing a car coming from a mile away and complaning after the car hit you. ๐
What you could do: Ask the current inhabitants of the house if they could send the DVD to you for your expenses.
October 25th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Stephen: just mail shop@blender.org and we send another copy. We did indeed plan to mail all customers a reminder, but scripting this in our shop is tedious work, and I was afraid that a test with such mass-spam would give disasters. ๐ Instead we just send out another copy on request if you moved.
At the conference we sell all Blender e-shop goodies for nice discount prices, also Durian dvds and posters.
October 25th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
” Doesnโt anyone READ anymore before asking the obvious? ”
Why make movies if we want to read?
October 26th, 2010 at 12:31 am
To say to myself that my home theater was a good investment! ๐
October 26th, 2010 at 2:40 am
Ah crap it’s only been 2 days since they’ve been mailed… I think I need to move to Europe ๐
October 26th, 2010 at 9:05 am
If you can’t wait then maybe meanwhile you can read the comic:
http://www.joeri67.nl/sintel/
October 26th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Oj, joeri, I want to read the comic, but the images aren’t exactly loading. ๐
October 26th, 2010 at 11:08 am
Yes Got it. DVD arrived a our ago. Just watching it now…. LOVE IT. MY DAY IS PERFECT. THX BLENDER FOUNDATION :). Till next time in another exiting project..
October 26th, 2010 at 11:30 am
D:
Works for me, what browser/os do you use?
Its using canvas so you need a browser or if you use IE than IE9.
October 26th, 2010 at 11:36 am
I also made a pdf ( 4mb ) and an ebook ( 3.2 Mb )
http://excellentwhale.homedns.org/sintel/sintel.pdf
http://excellentwhale.homedns.org/sintel/sintel.epub
October 26th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Hi, guys.
I’m very excited about everything. I’m proud to participate indirectly to this amazing project.
I didn’t see the movie yet. I prefere to see it my copy ๐
Congrats to all the team!
(sorry about my bad english)
October 26th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I think that i am the first that reseaft a copy of sintel by post
http://yfrog.com/em26102010252j
October 26th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
To all the people jumping down my throat, as Ton said, the original plan was to have an email confirming your address before the DVDs were sent off, so yes, I can and do read. I thought this was still in place and so didn’t think to read every square inch of the Sintel website for instructions on how to receive the DVD. I do have better things to do…
It’s a shame people are so fast to jeer and insult, if I were a new user I may be put off by such behaviour, thinking that the whole community is like this.
Thanks Ton, I’ll send an email off asap. Also great work with Sintel, looks amazing considering the time restraints. Looking forward to the next film project.
October 26th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
I guess it’s just common sense to send out a new address when you move to the companies you ordered something.
October 26th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
A misconception is something everyone makes, as long as it’s about an item worth a view euros… no big deal… ๐
Btw, I got the DVD today and it’s great, but the video bitrate is darn low. (but that doesn’t matter to me, as I have my own AVCHD version made from the original PNG’s)
Also a pity that the docu doesn’t pay attention to the voice acting.
But for the rest: GREAT, see you guys at the conference!
October 26th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
” Btw, I got the DVD today and itโs great, but the video bitrate is darn low. ”
Did you see the filesize of the VOB and devided that by the length of the movie and compared that to DVD’s whitepaper? You’d be surpriced.
October 26th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Yes, I did, an it’s not bad, but you can see that you had to make some compromises to make it all fit. ๐
October 26th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Thanks a lot for the hard work guys! Amazing job!!!!
We never see this kind of project here in Brasil, and Blender is not famous here yet but I with this material I will change this hehehe
October 26th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
yeehaa received the DVD package today great work.
Thanks !!
October 26th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Received the DVD today, and it sure looks awesome ๐
watched the topology tutorial from angela and the shading/texturing tutorial from ben which were both great ๐
anyway great job! and for those going to the blender conference, see you there ๐
October 26th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Yay time to eat and enjoy ๐
October 27th, 2010 at 1:11 am
Woop Woop woop.
I received it today.
The discs smelled awfully fresh. :p but it was awesome.
Thanks D team!
October 27th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Received it yesterday ๐
It did indeed smell “fresh from the press” but I cuddled it anyway. Saying the mandatory “Mine mine mine mine, mouhhahhaarrrr!” when I get stuff I really enjoy (a bit too much).
October 27th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Just arriveeeeeeed! That’s greaaaaaaat! Thank you all guy for the wonderfull jobs you did!!!! THANKS!
October 27th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Received today!!! I couldn’t receive it at home cause I’m at work most of the day…so I choose the address of my Mom and today she phoned me: “something has arrived for you, i don’t know…seems to be a DVD” and me: YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! As I finish in my office I’ll run, I can’t wait that moment!!!!!!
Thank You Ton, thank to all the staff!!!!
You are so precious!!
airsnake, Genova, Italy
(sorry for my english!!)
October 27th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Just got the today. Looks really cool! ๐
Now I can finally watch it on my big ass TV in HD!!!
Thanks for the send!
October 27th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
I got my DVD box today (France)!
Thanks to the Durian team!
October 27th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Got the DVDs today! There’s only a little imperfection in the case but it’s all exceptional.
October 27th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
I got it
Beautifull work and thanks again team!!!
BRAVO!
October 27th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Epic!
you can be proud of.
Thanks!
October 27th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
@JW I’m not about to waste my time arguing with you. Well done, I’m stupid, lack common sense and you are king of the world. Have a nice day.
October 27th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Arrived today. Video quality is just above youtube on the docu, but its a docu so… And I’m missing the subs for Ton and it would have been nice if everyone who appeared would have had his name, country and job on the project shown.
Besides that, its a nice docu and I’m just exploring the rest.
Btw: Is the proper Blender version needed to render the film on the DVDs somewhere? I can’t seem to find it.
October 27th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I forgot to mention that I loled hard at Nathan goofing around at minute 53. I watched it like 5 times laughing.
October 27th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
uuuuuhhh! That’s a Bingooo!…. (is that the way you say? that’s a bingo?)
October 27th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
No, we just say bingo. ๐
October 27th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Just received the DVD package and watched it.
…
Just, wow :-O
October 27th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
got the DVD. Thank you very much. A really nice box and nice DVD labels.
October 27th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Got my DVD this morning. Right in time ๐
Great work !
October 28th, 2010 at 8:24 am
DVD arrived yesterday – Thank you!
October 28th, 2010 at 8:28 am
Got my DVD yesterday and watched the movie for the very first time.
I’m very impressed by the quality of the art and animation. Although the story is very sad and shows how a lot of people break the things they love. I hope that many people will learn from it.
Great job everyone and I’m looking forward to the next project!
October 28th, 2010 at 9:31 am
DVD arrived yesterday. I watched the making of documentary right away.
Man!! It realy WAS a struggle to get everyting done it seems. Kudos to the team for pulling this one of.
Also watched the movie with Esther’s commentary. A lot more layers and metaphores then I realised.
October 28th, 2010 at 10:04 am
I just got the DVD.
So I immediately put it into my Linux PC to mplay the nice surround sound HD version. Now imagine my dissapointment when I notice that the video has been encoded using AAC5.1 !?!?!?!?!?
Why not DTS or DD5.1!? Most DTS/DolbyDigital hardware decoders do not support aac5.1. WTF? Seriously. If your gonna release something, stick to established standards.
Now I gotta go and rip the audio from the DVD version and try to remux it with the MP4 video.
October 28th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Thanks for my first birthday present that has arrived today: the DVD box!
Great work!
October 28th, 2010 at 10:46 am
@ChojinDSL: I voted for an AC3 version, but it had to be cut in order to keep the encoding/release overhead low, what with limited resources and all. Sorry. If you want to do your own re-recording, be sure to rip the AC3 track from the NTSC disc, as the PAL one has a different speed.
October 28th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Very much enjoyed the tutorials.
Way above my leage, and seeing Angela strugling with the copy and paste made my toes curl. Why isn’t the computer doing all that administrating work? It didnt got clear if the animators now use the rig or the poses. Need – to – watch – more – tuts.. Lol. The discs got too much content.
The layout tutorial with Colin is very funny. You gotta love that guy, no matter what he stays positive. Still wonder why he frames so bad ๐ .
It keeps on puzzling me why people working with CG want to mimic film so much. “I had a virtual tripod” … What? “I have to cheat a bit here” Hello! It’s a movie! “And they will love you forever” ๐ Time to get responsable.
I also notices Sintel is very small… Is that why she always has so much headroom?
Very cool/brave to share, good work boyz and gurls !
October 28th, 2010 at 11:03 am
I fixed with the help of Avidemux. Simply ripped the AC3 from the NTSC version and slapped it onto the HD video file.
Thankfully the timing fit perfectly, so ne re-syncing was necessary.
Now, about the movie:
I was a bit underwhelmed by the story. Granted, there is only so much you can do in 14minutes. But we all saw the behind-the-scenes videos of Stunt actors performing fight Choreography and other stunts, so to see that almost entirely gone was VERY dissappointing.
Secondly, the story feels like corners were cut. This was supposed to be an “epic” story. As such it feels like it should have been longer, or at least more to the story. As it stands it feels like parts are missing. Also, I felt that the movie didn’t quite convey the passage of time appropriately. While Sintel walks around a bit. She doesn’t look weathered by the journey. Considering that obviously quite a bit of time has passed. She at least should have grown longer hair and perhaps her outfit become more weathered.
Animation:
High marks all around, except for the Lip movements. They were too slow and felt like they barely managed to keep up with the actual spoken dialogue. Otherwise, everything else was very well animated.
The Look:
Nice shading, great use of Depth Of Field. Some very impressive shots of the city, with lots of detailed objects and such. However, Sintel’s hair and the Shaman’s Hair seems like it could have been done better. I know, hair is a PITA. But still.
Also the character design for the humans, seemed a bit too cartoony. I realise that makes things easier in some cases. But this was supposed to be a “fantasy epic with realistic characters.”
Full points for the dragon though.
Conclusion:
In the end, I’m dissappointed with the story. For me, the prime example of how to tell a perfect story arc in such a short time is Big Buck Bunny. That left the viewer satisfied and thoroughly entertained.
Sintel falls short of that, since it feels like some scenes were rushed, and others reduced. This seems to be a common problem with Animation though. You spend so much time, painstainkingly creating frame after frame, that you often loose the feel for the timing of the story, or the feel of the whole story arc.
An extra scene here or there could have helped things greatly.
October 28th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Received it yesterday (in Belgium), thanks ร lot
October 28th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Received it yesterday, these DVDs are awesome !!
I didn’t had time for now to check everything since there are thousands of goodies !! And most of them under creatve commons! Thank you for your work!
October 28th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
By the way, I just discovered that the AC3 master that I prepared for the DVD is on xiph.org:
http://media.xiph.org/sintel/sintel-master-51.ac3
So if anyone wants to try his hand at encoding a version with DD sound, use that one!
October 28th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
My DVD arrived yesterday (october 27), in Italy. Thanks!
October 28th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
“She at least should have grown longer hair and perhaps her outfit become more weathered.”
I was as the previewing and had the same problem.
It was fixed with an ex-machina. Just watch the movie again and you’ll see the clues as to what is happening to her age.
Also, listen carefull to what the shaman says: “You have only failed to see…”
If you want a more slow pased version you can check out the comic I made out of the movie ( shameless plug )
http://www.joeri67.nl/sintel/ ( not for ie8, that is not a html5 browser )
I think the movie is like a good song: it grows after seeing it more often. Not sure that is a good thing for a movie though.
October 28th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Ha llegado a Valencia (Espaรฑa) No tenรญa la llave del buzรณn y he estirado mucho los dedos para sacarlos por la boca.
Hay mucho que ver todavรญa, pero es fantรกstico. Gracias y enhorabuena.
October 28th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Got It !!! ( October 28 )
From Barcelona, Spain
Thank you very much
Looking forward to the next project !!! ๐
October 28th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
DVDs arrived in excellent condition in the UK. Thank you to everyone involved in the project. I look forward to similar sponsorship of the next project.
October 28th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
I have my copy, in excellent conditions to!!!
Thanks Blender Team.
Portugal
October 28th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Omg lots of facial animation tutorials, I love you Angela! The scatter thingy from Campbell is great! Tips from Colin are great, retopo projection – i need that ๐
Nathan I want more rigging tutorials! more!
I wish the documentary was a bit longer.
Looking forward to the next blender project!
October 28th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
From Hull, UK:
Came home from work and found it in my doorstep, really looking forward to watch the film! Also greatly impressed with the 4 DVDs included, feels like Christmas came early!
October 28th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
It arrived yesterday (27)! Perfect conditions! Thanks from Portugal ๐
October 28th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
My copy arrived yesterday -27.10. (in germany). Thanx a lot!
October 28th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Thanks for the DVD!
Loved the “making of” very much,
still have to take a look at the tutorials, but so far it is looking great.
Up to the next movie!
October 28th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Mine arrived today (UK) cheers guys ๐
October 28th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Thank you so much for your hard work guys!
My DVD pack arrived yesterday in Italy!!! Now I’ll take a look at everything… really a lot of stuff in it!!! ๐
Waiting for your next movie. ๐
October 28th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Received on Tuesday the 26th and in perfect condition !
Now I have to find time to dig these discs.
October 28th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
The DVD set arrived today. Just few minutes before I have seen this movie.
It was great, but a little short ๐
I’m going to look at it 10 times or even more with my family, students and other guys like I’ve seen Elephants Dream and BBB before.
October 29th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Received today, 28th and in perfect condition (Barcelona, Spain). Thanks Durian Team. Great work!!
October 29th, 2010 at 1:24 am
Great film, thanks everyone.
In addition to what’s already on the DVDs in terms of data material, as on peach, the whole project dir (probably including SVN, etc.) will surely be online soon – right guys?
What about all the administrative stuff? Time-schedules are a start, but I would also welcome anonymized financial planning, budget stuff, etc. What about that? Would be nice to get a glimpse into the organizational/ financial aspect of the blender open movies.
October 29th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Hi!,
Received yersterday. 28th. at (Seville, Spain).
I hope to have news soon about the next big project. Perhaps a long movie ? I would be great if we can see it in local cinemas.
Thanks for your geat work Durian Team .
October 29th, 2010 at 10:14 am
Hi!
I received yesterday (28th / Hungary).
The matte files are missing from DVD (There isn’t any files in pro/mattes directory), many scene is unrenderable under Ubuntu 10.04 (blender crashes immediatly, if I press F12 ) ๐
But, other things on discs are great. I like the best David’s stuffs.
Thanks.
October 29th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
whooo !!! received it yesterday ๐ one week before my birthday, it’s a great present ๐
October 29th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
I’ve received mine yesterday. \o/
The additionnal stuff is awesome! Thanks guys! You’re doing a damn great job!
October 29th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
@Oleeblood: I haven’t the time to open the datas files yet, but check if the matte files are not in the data section of the PAL DVD.
And also, try to open the *.blend with the version of blender included in the second data DVD….
October 29th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
@untel: Thx for advice… I checked on all disks, but I found them nowhere (mattes). I tried the scenes with Blender_Renderbranch from the DVD. ๐ The error maybe comes from OS, I going to rebuild from source today… and try it again.
October 29th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
could anyone please upload the making-of documentary to youtube? i can’t wait to see it. ๐
(my dvds got shipped to my parents place because i moved a lot recently and now my parents are on holiday and i probably won’t get them until end of november.)
October 29th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
I thought youtube has a 10 minute limit.
October 29th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
oh, forgot about that. i think they have raised it to 15 minute now for standard accounts.
hm… maybe someone has a director account without limit or maybe someone knows a different video hoster?
October 29th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Yeah, DVD arrived in Germany!
Thank you very much Durian-Team for this great work! Looking forward to your next open movie!
October 29th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Hi!
After rebuilt from DVD source under Ubuntu 10.04, everything works like a charm… ๐
Thx!
October 30th, 2010 at 8:31 am
” After rebuilt from DVD source under Ubuntu 10.04, everything works like a charmโฆ ๐ ”
Cool.
October 30th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
I’ve just received mine !
The package is really really good. So nice, I couldn’t expect more ๐
Thanks a lot again and again to the Durian Team. (I’m so proud to be on the special DVD credit list !)
Bertrand, Toulouse, France.
October 30th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Looks like they are starting to hit state side, just got mines in Orlando, Fl.
October 30th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
My copy arrived yesterday – in Switzerland ๐ Thanx for this extraordinary DVD-Package. Still browsing through.
October 30th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
I just got my copy today. It is awesome.
October 30th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Nothing like coming home (Buffalo, NY, U.S.) to some mail from Amsterdam after a long day of work! yessss
November 1st, 2010 at 7:52 am
Got my DVD’s on Saturday October 30th. Los Angeles, California, USA
Loved the “making of’ documentary. Thanks for sharing your struggles; wasn’t all fun and games. I hope this experience does not discourage Ton or anyone on the team from making more films.
Can’t wait for Mango.
November 1st, 2010 at 9:32 am
Can’t wait to download the DVD ISOs.
November 1st, 2010 at 11:21 am
”
# Davis Says:
November 1st, 2010 at 09:32
Canโt wait to download the DVD ISOs.
”
Lol… always with the freebees… I guess beer is realy cheap in some countries.
Nothin’ wrong with that but I doubt one can render the scenes if one can’t afford the discs though. But the tutorials are worth watching, if you’re going to make a real movie, granted.
Beorn Leonard said at the Conf more people should post about making (character) animation. But I think character animation is way to much work to do as a hobby and got proven wrong by a guy at the open session showing his feature he made in 6 years during his train rides to and from work. I guess thats my trouble, my trip to work is a 5 minutes bike ride.
Anyway, not going to upload 28Gb to my server. But I’m sure someone will someday.
November 1st, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Thanks for the material, Team Durian
Now methinks I have the justification getting ‘her indoors’ aka ‘the finance minister’ to allow me to upgrade my pc (amd 1600), to be able to make my xmas day photograph with Scales and my 4 1/2 yr old daughter in.
I thought I ticked a check box to get one of those un-used workstations at the foundation bundled with my order….me suspects the mailman may have appropriated it ๐
regards
TFS
November 1st, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Just received my dvd! Loved it! Thanks so much for a GREAT job!
November 1st, 2010 at 10:34 pm
I got it today after school in Boston. So happy!
November 1st, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Watching my dvd right now. Something amazing about seeing it on my television ๐ Extremely happy I bought this! Sad the tanner fight didn’t happen though. If only there was more time and more people to work on it. Thanks for the amazing movie!
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:05 am
My DVD arrived 3 days ago in France but I’m not there to open it ๐
November 2nd, 2010 at 3:12 am
Half way around the world in eight days. Now thats fast. I got mine today in Portland Or. USA.
November 2nd, 2010 at 4:54 am
My DVD arrived earlier today! Thank you so much!
Austin, Texas. USA.
November 2nd, 2010 at 6:17 am
I got mine yesterday in Phoenix AZ!
Simply AWESOME!
November 2nd, 2010 at 1:15 pm
I see some messages from USA that DVDs arived there. I’m from Portugal and not have the DVDs yet. Anyone from Portugal got it?
November 2nd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
sintel dvds just arrived in Croatia! Picture, and soon, unpacking video ๐ here http://www.nenadpantic.com/?page_id=112
November 2nd, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Unpacking live on Vimeo : http://www.vimeo.com/16442395 ๐
November 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Just got mine today. Enjoyed watching the documentary. Great job, guys!
November 3rd, 2010 at 1:07 am
Just got mine yesterday (2010-11-01) near Boston, MA, USA. That was fast! And apparently the Blender Institute smells like…nothing. The DVDs themselves had that freshly-minted smell, but the rest of the package — nada.
Anyway, awesome product and package. Can’t wait to dive into the extras!
-Pete
November 3rd, 2010 at 1:12 am
I see you there, timezone difference, making it look like I can’t do math. <_<
November 3rd, 2010 at 2:03 am
Just got mine today. Fort White, FL USA. Package was in excellent conditions. I’m now going to enjoy.
Thanks Ton and everyone involved!!!!
November 3rd, 2010 at 6:40 am
My copy of Sintel arrived (Louisiana) yesterday, and I’m still reeling from watching this wonderful movie! Beautifully rendered, and deeply emotional, with a stunning score, all surrounding such a simple story. Ton and all the rest, I congratulate you on a real masterpiece!!
November 3rd, 2010 at 9:21 am
Got my DVD set. Arrived in New Zealand on the 2nd of November. Looks awesome guys.
My only disapointment was my name did not make the DVD credits, Im sure I purchased well before the cut off. (March I think, maybe earlier)
Been skimming through all the content on the DVD’s it is all so awesome. There is so much to learn from.
Congratulations to all the team who worked on Sintel, You have created an amazing short film. It’s certainly set the bar high for the next Blender Project to compete with.
Good luck to you all with your future Jobs and projects.
November 3rd, 2010 at 7:18 pm
YES!! Got the Sintel DVD set this morning.
IT IS AWESOME! Thank you very many & much from Menorca, Spain.
November 3rd, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for the prompt follow up.
I was wrong my name is there. Its on the PAL NTSC version DVD Credits.
My TV is HD and plays digital video files so I did not bother with the lower rez versions which ment I missed it.
many thanks,
J
November 3rd, 2010 at 10:04 pm
just got my dvd set and just so happen to have the next 6 days off work so now i have time (finally) to do something enjoyable, i’ll be pour over these dvds for a long time to come
November 4th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Got my DVD yesterday (Germany)
awesome feeling to hold it in hands! the money has been good invested!
of course i could have simply downloaded it but, this project really earns this little donation ๐
hope you’ll get sponsors for stereoscopic rendering!
congrats!
November 7th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
I don’t understand, why did some in Germany get the DVD after a few days and others after 1,5 week?
November 8th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
YAY I GOT IT yesterday. Thanks D team!
November 8th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Hi! I don’t have the DVD yet. I did purchase it before production started and indeed my name is seen at credits but, it still do not arrive here yet. I’m at Puebla Mรฉxico.
Any other from Latin America or Mรฉxico with same problem?
Someone can tell or know how it would takes to arrive here? I’m eager to have it. :S
Thanks and Cheers! ๐
November 9th, 2010 at 5:55 am
Hi, I’m from Colombia, haven’t received it yet… also eager…
November 9th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Hola tocayo! Pues supongo que nos va a tardar un poco mรกs a los latinos. Esperemos no mucho! Gracias! Hay que estar atentos y si me llega en estos dรญas lo publico. Ojalรก puedas hacer lo mismo.
Hi Oscar! I guess it may take a little longer for us at Latin America! Hope not too much! Thanks a lot, and we have to stay alert. In case I get it along this days I’ll let you know by this blog. I hope you can do the same.
Best Regards! ๐
November 9th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Listo, de una, apenas lo reciba tambiรฉn lo posteo
November 9th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Ya me llegaron los DVD’s de Sintel, voy a revisarlos mas tarde!.
November 9th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
๐ Y donde estรกs?
Ahhh! Ya quiero que lleguen!! ๐
Felicidades Larry!!!
November 10th, 2010 at 12:15 am
Hello team, I received the DVD box in Vancouver, Canada. I watched it with a friend who wished the movie to be longer.
November 10th, 2010 at 7:39 am
Anyone got the dvd in india?? m also eagerly waiting….
November 10th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Estoy en Ecuador, ya los estoy revisando, me llegaron el 9-nov-2010 al medio dรญa. Estรก increible el contenido.
Espero que ya tengas los 4 DVDยดs, te llegan en una sola caja.
November 10th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
listo! acabaron de llegar, mรกs tarde los reviso
Gracias Equipo Durian!
Thank you Durian Team!
November 11th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Hey, finally my dvds arrived… yupppeeee ๐
But i cant check until saturday as i am outta town.
November 11th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Errr guys…the tutorial from nathan is only about 2sec? what happend?
November 11th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Thank you Durian Team and Blender3D. Good Work!.
Gracias a ustedes Equipo Durian y Blender3D. ยกBuen trabajo!.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Ahhh!! Todavรญa no llegan!!!
Felicidades Larry y Oscar!
Espero no tarden mรกs! ๐
Alguna idea de adonde escribir en caso de que no lleguen? Any idea which email I would write to in case the DVDs never arrive?
November 12th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Just received mine this week. The postman has encountered me on street because the address on envelope was not complete and the postman delivered me just because he knows me! I hope Im the only one with incomplete delivery address on envelope. Anyway, hugs to the Durian team. I’m enjoying the content of DVDs.
November 15th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Is any one in Mexico whose already have the DVDs? ๐
November 20th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Oscar,
I dont know in Mexico but in Brazil the dvds didnt arrive too
November 22nd, 2010 at 2:54 am
Thanks Luciano!
Wonder if this is normal for our countries to take so long with DVDs. Few moths ago I received a graphic card from France in less than a month, so … ๐
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:36 pm
I don’t know about Mexico but I’m in Paris, France and my DVDs have not arrived as of today. As a DVD sponsor it’s somewhat disappointing…
November 24th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
My DVD has not arrived too….
I’m in Taiwan.
But one of my friend got his package last week…..
November 25th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
My DVD has not arrived too.
I’m in Greece and my order shipped on October 28 !!!
December 1st, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Another person from Greece here.
Neither did mine.
I don’t know if it has to do with the election stuff having to be sent the previous month.
December 1st, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Folks, you simply did a great job.
I downloaded it from your site and after watching it I just want to thank you for this truly inspiring work of art. Not only is it great to see what Blender is capable of doing in the hands of talented artists, but also the story just left me speechless.
Thank you very much for this, for your work, dedication and effort you all put into bringing this to life.
December 6th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
When is this gonna be released in the internet like BBB?
December 8th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
How can we check the status of the package shipping?
I’m afraid of that my Sintel DVD is under the sea right now…..
December 10th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I have not received my DVD of Sintel (and some stickers that asked too)
I hope to arrive before Christmas
Greetings from Cancun, Mexico
December 19th, 2010 at 4:48 am
havent receive it jet
hope everything is ok.
im form Mexico.
December 19th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
As a gold sponsor it is very disappointing that i have still not received the DVD, and i’m living in Germany….My name was not even mentioned on the sponsors page, hope it even makes it to the movie….
December 27th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Still nothing……
December 27th, 2010 at 11:36 am
I’m so disappointed that I have still not received my DVD.
Soon we will say “Happy New Year”,
and I hope I’ll be happy at that time.
January 6th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Today I got my DVD & stickers
(was slowly but surely our Mexican Postal Service)
Thank you all Blender & Durian Team!
Cancรบn, Mexico
January 16th, 2011 at 12:55 am
Still…..nothing……
What about a refund ?
January 18th, 2011 at 11:57 am
FINALLY I GOT THEM !!!!!
Thank you Blender-Durial Team!
I will write a huge Review now for sintel on my Blendergr.com site (when i will finish the site)!!!!
January 21st, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Hiii, My sister toldme that my DVD has arrived Thanks Durian team!
From Mexico.
January 25th, 2011 at 10:25 am
@Allos: Where is my copy????? WHERE?
February 6th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Where is my copy?????