Pre-premiere time!
on July 18th, 2010, by Pablo VazquezQuickie one! Couple hours ago we reached 100.57% of final renders done! (yea we even passed it! 😛 )
We’re doing last minute encoding of the film right now, got the prints and t-shirts on the car, about to leave to Studio K for the pre-premiere.
We are so anxious, can’t wait! Next blogpost we’ll tell how things went 😀
OK time to leave, for those who can make it to the pre-premiere, see you there! let’s have some fun, party, drinks, blendergeekie time 😀
Gotta go, wish us luck! 😀
July 18th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
100.57%? Wait, wait, what? :-O
Good luck!
July 18th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
wooooohoooo, enjoying
July 18th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Holy smokes 😀 This it it! Good luck to all of you!
July 18th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Great! Enjoy it!
July 18th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
100.57%? Will that mean that the film will be a few seconds longer? ;D
Congrats on finishing! =)
July 18th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Good luck and good movie.
100.57% !!!!!!!!!!!
July 18th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
I wish 100.57% luck 😛
July 18th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Good luck!
July 18th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
that reminds me to a cd burner. alcohol 120%. durian 100.57%. Blender over 9000%!
July 18th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
For the whole time I have been watching this update… The time is upon us! HAVE FUN! 😀
July 18th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Have a great time all – you’ve earned it
July 18th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Good luck Durian team! 😉
July 18th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Enjoy it! Best luck to you guys!
July 18th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
this is the first blender product i’ve ever bought, so i expect to be 100.57% happy with it! 🙂
July 18th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Good luck guys.
100.57%? Wow, the picture will be longer than I thought.!!
July 18th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
good luck !!! 🙂
July 18th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
I think longer credits, hmm? 😀
July 18th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
YEAH !
Well done, guys 😀
July 18th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
congrats and good luck
July 18th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Have fun team! Enjoy a kapstoot or two 😉
July 18th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
I believe it’s above 100% because in addition to the 1080p renders there are some 4k frames ready. Am I right?
anyway, I can’t wait!
July 18th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Congrats!! Have fun!
July 18th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
100.57% just another rounding error? Wish I could have been there, have a great time, your team deserves it!
July 18th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
100.57%? As in deleted scenes? :/
July 18th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
100.57%?
I’m pretty sure the render went beyond another dimension!
July 18th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Is it a good idea to ask, why .57? 🙂
July 18th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
yay it’s finally finished – and good luck!
July 18th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
.58% would have been way to much guys… thanks for not over doing it:)
Have a great Premiere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 18th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Good Luck Durian Team!
July 18th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Hi guys,
I was very impressed by what I saw at the pre-preniere 😉 It was great. Also my 8 year old daughter was impressed. She was in tears, for her it was the real thing 😀 Well done
July 18th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
I’m glad you all made it. Congratz.
July 18th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Film was fantastic guys! If that was an unfinished film, (and I only noticed a couple of unfinished looking bits) then I can’t wait to see the full film!
July 18th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Good luck guys!! 😀
Congratulations!
July 19th, 2010 at 12:12 am
Wow, fantastic JamesMR!!
July 19th, 2010 at 12:19 am
I’m sad you guys are done. The completion ratio is hinting to the fact that this team should have been doing a full length movie. 🙂
Congratulations!
July 19th, 2010 at 12:43 am
I was at the pre premiere this evening,
and i have only one word for it:
EPIC
😉
July 19th, 2010 at 1:32 am
Jimmy: it’s quite short. As today, “EPIC” is a word used for all and anything. :p
July 19th, 2010 at 1:43 am
Happy for u guys, can’t wait to see the result
congratulation 😀
July 19th, 2010 at 1:44 am
Just got back… (I live in the North of the Netherlands, so traveling takes some time))
WOOOWWWWW, amazing, I want to see it over and over again!
Also very nice to meet and speak the Durianers and others in real life, it’s really been a pleasure, I wish I could stay longer! (and Nathan is really ”silly”, as he calls himself! 😀 😀 :D)
July 19th, 2010 at 2:01 am
C: The movie is just awesome,
beautiful graphics and a amazing story.
July 19th, 2010 at 2:24 am
Congratulations team!
July 19th, 2010 at 2:28 am
Hey Durian team, where’s the link to the post or video where you guys have a huge LCD showing the percentage of frames left to render and with last frame render. I thought I bookmarked it; apparently not.
July 19th, 2010 at 2:35 am
And contains very good tomato ketchup! (was it Heinz? 😉
Believe me, this movie/story will keep going in your head, the story is really great!
And the scene of Sintel running onto the stairs with Scales and the birds flying (it’s not a spoiler, it’s also in the trailer) is really amazing, the whole combination of music, emotions, cinematography, WOOOOOW WOOOOOW WOOOOOW!
Oooh, and last but not least, the film contains something funny and suprising when you’re really focussed! (and I really mean really, I only saw it at the second screening)
And of course you want to know the end:
Black background with white credits! 😛
July 19th, 2010 at 2:50 am
WOA! Congratulations DURIAN team !!!
Long but fast since the project begin …
July 19th, 2010 at 5:03 am
Quote (from Rein):
An 8 year old girl was in tears!
I am spellbound, I am speechless.
Durianers, you are a part of history now… historians will remember you forever.
July 19th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Woo! Congratulations on a good pre-reception, guys! 😀
Wait I can not.
July 19th, 2010 at 7:47 am
epic 🙂
July 19th, 2010 at 8:26 am
Good Luck. The Dragon is amazing!
July 19th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Good luck.
Whene goes the movie online??
I can’t wait
July 19th, 2010 at 10:49 am
Impressive. I also like the making-of docu.
To see Ton’s face that 12 minutes with 2 animators was impossible: priceless.
I didn’t see much of Martin’s work in the movie, but as the script writer pointed out; she removed all of his work except the red hair girl and the dragon. O well.
Colin wanted a story and a story it is. Overall I was a little less impressed as I was with ED. Mainly for not so great editing, and less brilliant design work.
Some parts where weird, I was asking myself Why a lot. Why is this thing in the middle of the town abandomed, why is the “guard” attacking her, why…
But I thought the animation to be flawless, I mean, of course animators will pick on it, but me as a viewer found the sets to be believeble ( except the town maybe ). The big dragon is amazing. The small one is cute. Sintel to be believable.
The other thing I wondered about was that the creators on purpose left out cliche shots, I think mostly for being hip and avangarde, but then started to wonder if I got the point of the story.
I was disappointed that again nothing was done with the editing considering CG. In UP there are some fantastic crossfades where time passes and mr Fredricson walks in the shot. This is nothing harder or time consuming to do, its just smart visual stuff. I missed that a lot in this movie, I thought they where missing a Matt or Andy to make smart innovative design shots.
( I find for example the typewrite in ED brilliant ).
But, having that said, it was a good experience, I’m proud to be a small sponsor to projects like this.
Chappo boys and girls, a job well done.
(note from ton: I removed text giving away the story and plot. That’s for september, the official premiere)
July 19th, 2010 at 10:54 am
It always amazes me that these things actually get finished!
But there you have it! It’s done!
Well done guys! You all deserve a large cookie!!
Enjoy the pre-premier!
Then…. on to the PREMIER!
July 19th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Hello everyone!
Just a quick one… It’s early monday… well not that early actually. Woke up with somewhat of a hangover. We had an awesome evening yesterday. It was great to see the movie we worked on so hard on a proper big screen with proper big audio and a proper big crowd. Shees….
Thank you all for the support over these last months. The experience was truly epic! We (the team) will post something soon… with some more pics of the screening and such. For now I’ll go make another coffee or two.
Thanks again… what a night… what a project…
July 19th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Was here, yesterday.
Have seen Beautiful Sintel.
2 times
Want more.
Epic story, too short.
Epic Quality.
Epic Team.
Will stay in my mind forever
Free.
Thanks Ton and Co.
Pascal from Paris
July 19th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
joeri67:
This movie was never meant for little kids, they’d always 12+/PG-13 in mind.
And btw, the violence isn’t graphic, but yes, it’s bloody, but in a very cinematic way.
July 20th, 2010 at 5:15 am
spoilers! boo!
July 20th, 2010 at 9:55 am
j.:
Tell that to my 7 and 4 year old.
“the violence isn’t graphic”
I don’t agree. But I think we are not allowed to discuss this open project.
July 20th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Not graphic in the sense of no clear injuries visible.
It never gets as gory/bloody as Beowulf. (the bloodiest PG-13 animated movie ever made, that was really a shock and a point of discussion for many people)
If you take little kids to this movie with ”How to train your dragon” in mind… well, that’s your own responsibility, but don’t blame others. 😉
July 29th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
I am stoked at the accomplishment of this team. I am dying to see this short and become a fan like others already have.