More people, more fun!
on April 6th, 2010, by aliOver the last weeks new team members arrived to support the durian project. It is getting crowdy in the Blender institute but amazing work is being done and it is much fun. Ali
Sintel, the Durian Open Movie Project
Sintel, the Durian Open Movie Project
April 6th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Whose dog? Also, the Twilight one is more awesome.
And if Nathan crying is reference footage, I’m starting to wonder what it has to do with the story.
April 6th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
As I said before, I think Ton is secretly building a small army of CG artists to take over the world!!!!!!!!!!!! Run for your lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 6th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Ton’s dog looks fun. WANT!!! (at least to visit)
Too dark, too light, too nmmnyyyeee.
April 6th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
This is so much fun. I hope that this all comes to the dvd. You guys must have an extreme amount of fun there!
April 6th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
@Revolt_Randy: I’m all for it. 😀
Awesome Blender theme Pablo. 🙂
@0:48, you can hear “You are indeed”, sounds like Thom Hoffman… Am I right?
@1:39, is that a smoke sim I see?
@2:45, what does Nathan’s shirt say?
April 6th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
I look.
Nathan in the prison !!!!! 😀
April 6th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
I love these people. So creative and so amazing in every way! 🙂
April 6th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
the dog, will you be using it for mocap for the little dragon? 😀
April 6th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Haha, awesome! Ton’s dog is really cool!
Keep it up, this is a gigantic project!
April 6th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
hahahah Cool dog 🙂 Lets dress it up like a dragon motion capture it x]
April 6th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
hahah spacetug beats me 😛
April 6th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Colin must not be working as hard as everyone else.. He has time to shave 😉
April 6th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
A double post! Woop woop! 😀 This is the best video I’ve seen yet! The studio looks so full of motivated functioning artists. That has got to feel incredible.
April 7th, 2010 at 1:00 am
Whahaha, this reminds me of some kind of drama training at school in the past.
I hope you all are still able to manage a separation between ”’motivation” and ”Blenderic madness”
As far as I can see in this short video, ”open source” does also mean ”being open for the most crazy kinds method acting”
Anyway, just do your best on your own way! 😉
April 7th, 2010 at 1:10 am
Nice to see that Colin actually enjoys all that Evil Colin stuff… 😛
Yep, working there has to be definitely fun. Ok there will be pressure, stress, frantic Blendin’ work, but… it just looks awesome!
April 7th, 2010 at 1:30 am
Great , heres a picture of evil nathan :
[url]http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/2102e99b209b4a4168e2500024403f7c6g.jpg[/url]
April 7th, 2010 at 1:45 am
Do you ever get the feeling while watching these videos that you’re seeing history formed in front of your eyes… by a bunch of goofballs? lol.
Go EvilColin! Go Ton’s Puppy! Go get Nathan out of Jail! (Well… maybe not ;P )
April 7th, 2010 at 2:16 am
I think Nathan T-shirt says something like “You call it” “We’ll miss it” O.o
April 7th, 2010 at 2:22 am
Record the dog’s growls for a dragon. 🙂
April 7th, 2010 at 3:11 am
I have Firefox 3.6.3 and for me this video looks just a bit too epic for this blog. (I mean, on the right it is overlapping the links.) Anyone else notice this?
April 7th, 2010 at 5:02 am
hahahahah…this is funny!!
April 7th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Colin! I had no idea you were a vampire!! :p lol
P.S. I am not a twilight person!! I just thought that it was pretty funny!
April 7th, 2010 at 6:01 am
Great! It’s been a long time since we had an ensemble video of everyone doing what they do. 😀 Lots of new Sintel footage, too – yay!
Thanks, Ali!
April 7th, 2010 at 9:24 am
This is completely random and off topic, but has anybody considered making a stereo 3d version of the movie? I personally am not very big on 3d, but I think it would be cool if it were done in that way.
The only reason I can think of why not is increased render times (which I suppose can be an issue) and having to remove depth of field (It doesn’t work very well to mix DOF with 3D).
Aside from my offtopicness, I have to say this video is very much entertaining. (although it might just be the fact that it’s 2:20 in the morning over here)
April 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
“we were doing embarrassing things..” ahaha guys!!
April 7th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
@Davis:
My shirt says “You call it, we’ll make it”
It’s a starbucks t-shirt. A friend got it for me a few years ago, because I was drinking lots of coffee at the time. 😉
April 7th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
@all: the dog’s name is Zorro, he belongs to our neighbours. I borrowed him as a baby dragon reference, yes. 🙂
@Ben: making & rendering this film in stereo3d is possible, but still will take an amount of extra work and rendering time. We cannot afford to do this ourselves now, I am looking for a sponsor for it. (will take 1-2 months render time + person preparing/checking all renders, plus tweaks in scenes where the stereo doesn’t work).
-Ton-
April 7th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
… I bet Sony would love to have a showcase reel for their 3D on the PS… good luck getting them to even notice the project. Even though they used a lot of BigBuckBunny to showcase blueray previously…
April 7th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
@Ton: What kind of sponsoring does the 3d version need?
Money, machines, people, knowledge?
April 7th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Great fun!! Love to see everyone hard at work, and having so much fun!
April 7th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
@Ben Hubel:
Making a 3d version could also be a communitie project.
Rendering it 4k 3d might be a bit much, but maybe vimeo can host a page where people render scenes and upload the video like the starwars uncut project.
April 7th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
So how many are working on durian?
April 7th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
“So how many are working on durian?”
All of them apparently…
April 7th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
STOP MESSING AROUND
and
GET TO WORK!!!
…haha just messin.
Do what you gotta do! 😀
April 7th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
lol , cool 😀 lots of people…in a way, it’s fascinating to look at all of you, who’re from different places, all working on the same thing, all working with the same program, all enthusiastic about the project… i’ve always found that cool 😀
omg, Colin, we like the same “DarkColin” pic! (it’s my new desktop, lol) the Twilight one makes me laugh too
…is that David on the ground, just before we see Nathan in “jail”? looks like him…
anyway, GO DURIAN/SINTEL TEAM! 😀
April 7th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
oops, the link on my name is wrong, there was a / missing…
sorry for the double post 🙂
April 8th, 2010 at 12:36 am
Great to see guys. Just a question though that was raised on an earlier blog post. Where is Angela? Is she missing in action (sick) or left the studio to pursue bigger and greater dreams?
Seeing some of these scenes that you are working on is definitely exciting. Keep up the great work.
April 8th, 2010 at 10:13 am
looks like fun 😀
April 8th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Angela is still working on Sintel, but currently full time from home. She is needed to be with her husband and family now. She’ll be back, at least for the premiere!
April 8th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Yeahhh! And at least somone rides a skateboard… btw. cant wait to see sintel… I Love Blender…
April 8th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
# Robbie Losee Says:
I have Firefox 3.6.3 and for me this video looks just a bit too epic for this blog. (I mean, on the right it is overlapping the links.) Anyone else notice this?
@Robbie: ‘…Depends on the size of the embedded video. It’s not forced by the cotainer to resize. The parameters may be edited to make it smaller.
April 8th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
@Joeri67: a stereo 3d version takes about 2 months render time, a person to manage renders, and enough time to fix shots that are problematic. That’s a money issue.
April 8th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Same problem as Robbie Losee here. Firefox last version, MacOSx 10.6.2. The YouTube screen is hiding sidebar links and the “Buy” link!
April 8th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
@Andi, Francisco Ortiz & Robbie Losee : The youtube player was too large, thanks and fixed 🙂
@Meshweaver : Yes 🙂 It’s me on the ground, just before we see Nathan in “jail” 😀
April 8th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
ah, thought so! 😀
April 8th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
How many time will the rendering of each Frame approximately take? (in the average)
April 8th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
@Nathan:
Must be horrible for you that there aren’t Starbucks shops in Holland? 😉
@Ton:
Good idea to use the dog, I’m almost sure they did the same for ”How to Train Your Dragon”
Prettige dag verder! (If you don’t get this, use Google translate! 😀 )
April 8th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
J.Says: there is a starBucks at Utrecht train station. I like the project sofar but I think they don’t show us everything, must be bigger then we think.
April 9th, 2010 at 12:28 am
I knew there’s one behind the customs at Schiphol, but also at Utrecht CS?
That’s news to me! I will carefully look if I’m there, once! 😉
And yes, it’s an ”open” project with a lot of things that are hidden at the moment, so I’ve got a plan:
We’ll kidnap the dog to get the secret information!
Sounds good?! 😀 😀 😀
I know, it sounds like shit, ye don’t have to tell me!
Anyway, keep up the good work, guys!
April 9th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
@J. and others: Why do you want to use Zorro when William can do it very well :p
Anyway… Bon courage 🙂
April 9th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Nice!
A question:
it’s friday now and no sign of Joe at all yet, has he arrived at the Blender Institute?
Is he still having problem with passport?
Please guys, let us know something more and….. show us some renders too!!!
Do you remember? We are all waiting for Fortress of rendertude to finally open and let slip some images out……. 🙂
April 9th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
”Fortress of Rendertude”? That sounds more like the building of Pixar, with all those fences around it. 😉
Something else, just a question:
How mad/weird is Nathan when the camera is OFF?
I’m curious! 😀
April 10th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
yeah, Fortress of Rendertude as ben called it in the blog post about Pablo arrival: /news/new-team-member-pablo-vazquezu/
look here http://i.imagehost.org/0954/rendertude.png
+1 for how mad/weird Nathan is off the camera LOL!
and again, is Joe at the Blender institute guys?
April 10th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
What do you guys think you are doing having fun and stuff?!?!?
Colin, don’t you think we’re due for another directorial address? 🙂
April 11th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
CoxB: Yup he arrived last thursday!
April 12th, 2010 at 11:36 am
YEAHHH! Go Joe!