More epic in 2010!
on December 31st, 2009, by TonI’ve just made quick screenshots of the lone soldiers here… they’re still at work, but in 30 minutes I’ll get the beer, Lee gets the playing cards and we’ll have some old fashioned fun. Then Angela arrives too, and we go to our favourite thai – even open this evening for us – and around 23.30 I take everyone into town to watch Amsterdam explode at midnight!
On behalf of the entire Durian crew, I wish everyone here a totally amazing & happy new year! New chances, new opportunities!
-Ton-
(Soenke, Nathan, Lee, Ben, Campbell, Oliebollen).
December 31st, 2009 at 6:45 pm
I fixed link to the first picture, thanks!
December 31st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Happy new year to all Blenderheads and the Durian Crew. And Ton ofcourse.
2010: the year of DURIAN!
Happy blending for 2010!
December 31st, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Happy new year people..
Btw there is hiden picture of Nathan ^_^
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December 31st, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Happy New Year Everyone !!!!
December 31st, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Happy New Year to everyone, and wish good luck and plenty of success to Blender Fundation and to Durian team š
December 31st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
man…you guys need more light in there!
December 31st, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Happy year 2010
December 31st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Happy New Year and All the Best..
December 31st, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Happy new year !
December 31st, 2009 at 6:40 pm
yay first post
Happy new Year durian
Just a fix /wp-content/uploads/2009/12/dsc00095.jpg
December 31st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Happy new year, Ton and Durian (not european) team.
I’m so sorry you’re not with your family, but think that your opera will make you admired forever!
December 31st, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Happy new year to all
and hope you can continu to add features and flexibility to blender 2.5 in 2010 – it’s becoming a major step foward for blender and hope to see more from the durian team
happy 2.5
December 31st, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Happy New Year! Good luck with your huge goal.
December 31st, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Happy Epic New Year!
December 31st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Happy new year guys š and dont let those oliebollen overwork š
December 31st, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Happy new year from Italy! š
December 31st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Yeha, Happy new year – you mad crazy geniuses! š
December 31st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Happy New Year everyone!
December 31st, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Happy new year to the Foundation crew! I wish you all the best guys! All the best to all the blender heads outthere!
CRiS
December 31st, 2009 at 9:14 pm
2010 “needs more epic” š
December 31st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
I wasn’t really in a new year’s mood; but it wouldn’t prevent me from wishing you all the best of luck and many many wonderful creative hours with the ongoing work. I’m so very impressed by the project so far.
All of you: Have a nice time and enjoy yourselfes. See you next year.
-ubsy
December 31st, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Happy New Year!
I spent Christmas in Germany with my family and I suppose I will always regret that I didn’t take a train ride up to see the Institute in person.
Maybe it’s for the best, though.
Last time I was in Amsterdam, I spent too much time at the Bulldog.
Looking forward to seeing what 2010 holds for blender and Durian!
December 31st, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Happy new Year Blender Foundation!
December 31st, 2009 at 10:38 pm
I suppose the last is Ton’s work.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Happy New year to Durian Team!
Have a succesful 2010!
December 31st, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Happy New Year and an epic 2010 š
January 1st, 2010 at 12:49 am
Happy New Year Everyone!
January 1st, 2010 at 1:26 am
Feliz aƱo nuevo a todas las personas que conforman el equipo de durian (durian team). Desde Colombia.
January 1st, 2010 at 1:33 am
Here it is, France jumped into 2010, so, happy new year everybody !
January 1st, 2010 at 1:40 am
HNYE xD
Funny to watch the post times…
January 1st, 2010 at 1:54 am
Happy New Year from France !!!
January 1st, 2010 at 3:12 am
Happy New Year!!
ughh.. I can’t see any more oliebollen! :-S
January 1st, 2010 at 3:51 am
Happy new year guys – especially the Aussies so far from home. You didn’t miss much with the fireworks on the harbour not as good as previous years. Let us know if you need a care package š
January 1st, 2010 at 5:26 am
Happy new year to every one, thanks for all your efforts on blender.
January 1st, 2010 at 4:53 am
Oh yes. A happy new year to the whole community!
I wish you to have great success with the durian project!
Nice greets from germany!!
January 1st, 2010 at 7:24 am
Happy New Year…Bst Wishes 2 eveyone!!!!!
January 1st, 2010 at 9:09 am
Happy New Year, guys! š
Is that a Mac under Nathan’s desk?
January 1st, 2010 at 11:03 am
Happy new year to everyone!
January 1st, 2010 at 11:09 am
Happy New Year 2010 to to the whole blender community!
January 1st, 2010 at 11:54 am
Have a fun New Years, can’t wait to see what you all do in 2010!
January 1st, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I wish a Happy New Year to the whole Blender foundation with a special thought to the Durian Team ! Have fun and work well ! Thank you for everything !
January 1st, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Very happy next year.. from Barcelona, Spain.
January 1st, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Happy new Year from Spain!!!
January 1st, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Ton seems like the worlds coolest Boss/Executive Producer/Developer in the world
January 1st, 2010 at 7:21 pm
The last photo looks so real. Even the sugar texture is perfect. LOL
Epic New Year to all from Spain.
January 1st, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Happy newyear everyone! Props to the team still working that late! Durian is going to rock! š
January 1st, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Happy New Year from Austria!
Good Luck for the project!
January 1st, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Animators need eat that?… I prefer bread with banana or even some of that tangerines over the table.
January 2nd, 2010 at 12:40 am
Happy new year!
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:58 am
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 AND AN GREAT EPIC YEAR, FULL OF REBOUNDS FOR THE BEST !!
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:31 am
Happy new year form Brazil! 2010 will be epic with Durian.
I wish the best for all you guys…
January 2nd, 2010 at 5:24 am
Happy new year!!!
and save some oliebollen for me!!!
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:38 am
Hey, a good, productive and happy new year to everyone!
I really should have spent my time in front of my PC instead of going to that party. The people who were there were so damn boring and at times it was almost like on a graveyard, then when some ultra-drunk-people came along it was like in a clownshow. As I already said, wasted time.
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Happy new year guys…
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:36 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR… I HOPE THAT THIS YEAR WILL BE THE BEST
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Happy New Year everyone
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Oh! I haven’t been checking for a couple of days, great photos Ton.
I send a warm HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL, from Australia. My wish for each of you this year is that your talent and passion collectively with Blender be a stand out success in and out of the 3D world.
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Happy New Years all
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Happy New Year to you all & Best Regard from Belorussia!!!
Good people so not much at this world… Ton, thank you that you there is at this world!
Good luck & more-more-more epic in 2010!)
Your project the best!)
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:20 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR DURIAN TEAM!!!
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:10 pm
One question to Lee if I may:
In the picture we see you animating the reference model of Sintel.
Are you animating only the body movements for now? Facial expressions are being saved for later on?
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:23 am
Epic new year blender and durianteam
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 pm
i wasnt able to greet on time…. my internet was down =c happy new year to the durian team ^^ \m/… good luck to all of you out there =D
January 4th, 2010 at 12:48 am
Happy New Year everyone!
2009 was a great year for blender…not only that I discovered it but with the start of Durian and the release of 2.5alpha a new level has been reached!
I really enjoy this blog and all the related developments, it’s awesome to learn from the community and see what everyone comes up with!
This has been a great year, much love and appreciation to everyone involved around blender!
Hope all of you enjoyed that tasty looking Olliebollen!
Best regards to the whole team.
Nixon
January 4th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Yay! Let the epic begin!
January 4th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Thanks for all the well wishes guys! Happy new year!
We’re all back at the studio (except for Colin who joins us tomorrow), keeping out of the cold and working on the film again, back to the trenches!
rogper: so we could start animating quicker, Nathan did some proxy versions of the characters but with the final rig setup (except for stuff he’ll add when doing weights on final sintel). So you’re correct we are just animating the body, which hasn’t been too much of a problem so far, just the way production pipeline goes sometimes, and will animate a face pass at a later time. Hope this answered your question, lemme know if you want any more info =)
January 4th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Nice to see so many workstations running Ubuntu! ;0)
What GFX cards are in use in the Office?
January 4th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
You need more sugar on your pastries. Maybe that’s epic sugar?
January 4th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Thanks for clarifying Lee! It sure did.
It’s a good method and even more when we have slowish PC’s…
As son I find something that intrigues me I will bother again š
January 5th, 2010 at 4:38 am
Sintel could be related to Yori:
http://www.piper-verlag.de/fantasy/buch.php?id=10331&page=autoraz&sort=autor&auswahl=H&pagenum=6 (for all of you that speak German. are there any?)