Getting ready for conference
on October 20th, 2009, by TonHi all,
Silence here… only means good stuff of course! We’ve got already so much great stuff to show, but we’re saving it all up for the next sunday Blender Conference talk. A bit of a tease is always more fun 🙂
After the conference we will be much more open, and just post our amazing discoveries right away. The only thing we’ll be reluctant with is revealing the full story.
What’s everyone working on?
- David concept-arts the Dragon. (We already have a final girl, she’s awesome!)
- Colin works on the conference presentation, and with script writer on final tweaks. We want to cut some in the film… it was getting just too much. Last week’s storyboarding and crappymatic edits reveiled it too.
- Angela is modeling the final character and making facial rig test setups.
- Soenke continues shader testing, he did hair last week, now trying eyebrows and other facial hair.
- Nathan is at home for his bro’s wedding, but he did already make a cool 2.5 rig last week. He’ll be back tomorrow.
- Lee is using this rig now to make a fight shot test.
- Campbell & Brecht are both fixing a gazillion of bugs, and run in and out the studio all the time to get them artists working with 2.5!
- And me? I managed to get Blender compile again today, on my 5 year old mac, and for first time in over a month! Not that I can code now, have to work on the talks on the conference too… 🙂
Laters!
-Ton-
October 20th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
First! (I’m so sorry!)
I’m really excited. 😀
October 20th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Woo hoo! Dang, I wish I could make the conf. Also wish I could see some of those tests, like the fight scene and hair shaders!
October 20th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
“A bit of a tease is always more fun” 😀 You have no idea about the pain and distress you are causing! It seems like an eternity from the last update! 😉 I’m glad to hear you guys are still alive and kicking!
Looking very much forward to the stuff that will be revealed at the conference…
October 20th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
It’s been quite a long time since I’ve been on Durian site… seems like project is running well 😉 I’m really excited about this… and looking forward for your next post. Keep it up! 🙂
October 20th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
that makes it even more painful that I won’t be able to make it to the conference this year. Can’t wait to see that stuff on the web tho!
😀
October 20th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Don’t forget: there’ll be a stream of the talk available too! Can’t predict yet when we post all stuff here for download, knowing Blender Conferences, that might well take some days before everyone’s back to normal 🙂
October 20th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Not going to this conf = bad desicion 🙁 little money and no time.
Please don’t cut the story more than you absolutely have to, I don’t care if it takes an extra month or two to complete.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Wot! Im even more excited to go the conference now 😀 too bad I’m gonna miss the keynote, got a biochemistry test that morning
October 20th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Why’s have to be allllll the way over in Amsterdam?? =(
Oh well. Keep up the great work Durian Team! Excited to see the work so far after the Conf!
October 20th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Aww, Ton, you’re curel! xD
Finally an update 🙂 Nice!
October 20th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
pls announce the steam broadly so nobody misses it and can see the show:)
all the news are great.hope the conference wil be great and that u all can enjoy it tho your in the middle of making things and it means lots of work too:)
gogogo 4 blender!
October 20th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
go durian !
go!
October 20th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Wow 🙂 I find myself often refreshing this site, just to read more about durian… and now I’m not disappointed
October 20th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
I’m going to be away from my internet connection during the conf, so I hope it won’t be too long before the streams will be made downloadable.
So as long as I’m hoping, I hope Brecht’s secret project will out at the conf too 😉
October 20th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Will there be a live stream of the conference like last year?
October 20th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
“Bro”, “laters”, Ton is that really you…….”dude”…lol, good stuff. Thanks for the update..funny how time (and lack of funds) can creep up on us and make our technology, primitive isn’t it…I think of my computer as “new”, but I realised after reading your update that my computer is now nearly 4 years old….”whince…ouch”.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:05 am
“Soenke continues shader testing, he did hair last week, now trying eyebrows and OTHER FACIAL HAIR”…perhaps a moustache? 😀
“Lee is using this rig now to make a fight shot test”… Bravo!!! Bruce Lee is the best in fight action !!! 😀
Good luck for all Durian team !!!
October 21st, 2009 at 2:06 am
yo los felicito..
por tener encuenta a las mujeres en este proyecto
yo tengo ganas de ver lo que han avanzado
por fabor no sean malos y muestren
yo quiero aprender a utilizar gim con blender 🙂
yo kelooooooooo verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
October 21st, 2009 at 2:08 am
Wohooo! Good luck to the Durian team! I’m so excited I can’t almost contain it. I might have to prepare my jaw dropping. ^_^
Great work!
-Reyn
October 21st, 2009 at 3:01 am
Well, I hope that the rigs in the female character female parts jigs as she fight through out the ten minus of the film. I edited the earlier version of this statement. let keep it clean.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:31 am
the pain…Ton you must promise to give us an update every day..and with a picture…and it must include a new 2.5 feature. and eye candy.
really excited
i cant wait
October 21st, 2009 at 3:33 am
ohh the pain
Top promiss us to post every day and with a photo or a new feature.
what ever happened to that live webcame on the blender institute lab idea.
it kinda worked last year for a bit then it was scrapped, i could look at that all day.
October 21st, 2009 at 5:20 am
I just recently watched the project Orange (aka Elephants Dream) “Making Of Documentary,” so I have a vivid mental picture of what you mean by a “crappymatic.” (((YIKES!))) That said, it made reference to several Blender features that we now take for granted which were developed during Orange. It was a great reminder of just how much these projects help improve Blender. I would highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it. It can be found on the page:
http://orange.blender.org/download
Go Durian!
October 21st, 2009 at 7:51 am
MTracer was me…I have no idea why it comes up on my PC as you(with your info as well), but this is a problem……that post was me referring to my old computer and Ton’s odd slang….weird. I had to delete it again writing this post.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:43 am
@Ton: work impending so won’t be there unfortunately. Can we expect some little hint from Brecht’s secret project too at the conference ?
October 21st, 2009 at 9:02 am
I guess that’s Ton getting into the whole “adolescents” thing. 😀
The reply name switch happens to me as well; probably a glitch with WordPress.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:40 am
of course its ton , he knows whats up ;D
October 21st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
@JustinBarrett: The same thing happened to me the last project as well. Someone else’s info was used instead of mine. I hope it doesn’t happen too often. As D says, probably a glitch with the software.
Anyway, Ton I am glad you guys are getting ready for the conference. Priorities are important. Good luck to al the team, you are making a lot of us wish we were watching right over your shoulder at the moment.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Yeah, same here with the name swap. I felt quite honoured to be given the chance to post as Matt Ebb last time I visited… didn’t though.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:21 pm
..isn’t blendernation hosted at wordpress too…cuz i had some issue with my name there too..not sure if maybe someone wen’t by the same name tho :/
October 21st, 2009 at 10:48 pm
yo kelooooooooo verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I want to see
Iiiiiiiiiiii wanttttttttt toooooooooooo seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
October 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Whaaattt!!!???? teasing???
I’ve been checkin the durian site everyday and I met today with this??? no way
I want durian!!!!
you are evil….. 🙂
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 am
si no empizan actualizar este blog comenzaremos huelga
en facebook, como durian el proyecto mas engañoso
solo queremos estar actualizandonos tenemos derechos
este proyecto es gnu por lo tento debe respetarce las normas
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:20 am
*sigh* Can’t make it to this years BConf…
I will be watching the streams for sure! Still not the same though 🙁
Have a great time and thank you for Blender!
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:13 pm
WOW, i am really jealous of you guys. I am as nervious that i can´t wait too much time. XD o hope to see some of that stuff as soon as possible. This film it will be grear for sure. lot of work here and the possibilitie to follow all the developement is simply great.
respects to you.
see you soon
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I can’t wait to see our Heroine!!!!
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 am
Do I have a question?…………….
“”Where can I find material to create animcaiones 2d with blender””
I would like some help
please 🙂
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 am
Watching you now, Ton, live over the internet! Got some applause on Durian! 😀 The sound is sort of screwy, though.
Can’t wait till Sunday.
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
The live stream is awful!
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:28 pm
I buy the dvd agradeceria advance which would put some tutorials on how to create textures in gimp
October 24th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
So much nice stuff on the bconf 🙂
Live steam works fine but poorly only for QuickTime… on VLC it’s crappy as hell…
October 24th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
*in lack of an EDIT*:
Oh great, now that I said that, the steam seems to be broken xD
Just when someone was starting to talk…
October 25th, 2009 at 2:19 am
…………………………………………
-Ton-I have a question ..
used “BlenRig 3.0 – Alpha2”????
………………………………………….
🙂 🙂 🙂
October 25th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Can you believe I missed the presentation? :@ Now I’ll have to wait four hours till the repeat broadcast! I hope the video stream will be acceptable…
October 25th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
No! The first replay is immersive domes again!?
:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O
Oh, it’s going to be a long – potentially – 10 hours…
October 25th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Lucky me. 😀
The presentation was awesome! Congratulations, fellows, you guys are really doing it! 😀 😀 😀 Great art, great renders, great models, great rigs, great script, even the crappymatic was great. 😀 Get those reaction shots in!
So it seems like it really was “Sintel”, and my prediction about it being the Durian girl’s name from Directorial Address #1 was correct as well.
Now that it seems like we’re leaning toward fewer spoken lines, wouldn’t that mean making them spoken in Esperanto more viable? It would be great to have it discussed, so please do.
You guys… rock on. 8)
October 25th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
>Campbell & Brecht are both fixing a gazillion of bugs
And at amazing speed too:
Filed a bug report ([19719] segfault assigning a different mesh to object in edit mode) and 65 minutes later Campbell had it fixed.
totally amazing response time 🙂
October 27th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Good luck Durian team!
😀