Sintel official premiere
on August 16th, 2010, by Ton
Just had it confirmed from the Festival committee:
Official premiere Sintel: Monday 27 september, 19:30h, in Rembrandt theatre, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
This screening is part of the normal festival, for which tickets have to be reserved or purchased via the theatre or via the festival itself.
Netherlands Film Festival website. (program will only be available sept 9)
The DVD production has also started (slowly!), we plan to have this ready for print at the festival. I’m uncertain if we can have the DVDs available then already though… we’ll do our best!
In order to prevent crappy bootlegs to be posted, we’ll release the film a few days after the premiere as well, with sufficient mirrors for everyone to enjoy with us this milestone in Blender history!
-Ton-
August 18th, 2010 at 7:15 am
Good luck guys! I followed you from the start. I am very happy for the blender community and all the hard work that the team did. Excitement! 🙂
August 18th, 2010 at 8:32 am
wow. i can’t wait to see this, is crazy, this is killing my brain. i love blender and i think that the durian team have made an excellent work and process. thank you a lot.
August 18th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Can’t wait! You guys really rock!!!
August 18th, 2010 at 9:22 am
“34 euros is expensive for a short film 6 to 8 minutes…”
34 euros is rather cheap for having 18 people working a half year fulltime+the_extras on improving free software and developing fully open content.
Far less than my yearly maya subscription, and I don’t get a free cool dvd with that.
August 18th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
It’s much money for just a DVD, it’s really cheap for a good software product.
Plus, the attendance at the premiere was an evening to never forget!
I would not buy just a Blu-ray or DVD for that amount of money, but in this situation it’s different.
August 18th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
34 euros for a single film is so much money, a DVD or Blu-Ray will not reach that price.
it is no longer open source looks like the bad bizness
August 18th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Frank Zippo
34 euros for the current version Special “Collector” is true is always expensive, except for fans
everybody can not afford this amount for this 11 minutes of film. It would be nice to release a version with
only the film 11 minutes, 11 euros.
August 18th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
It is open source, you’ll be able to download the film and program if you think it’s too expensive. Buy a book or something from blender shop instead if you still want to contribute but think that the film is too expensive.
August 18th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Funny some think it’s to expensive or bad business for a free product, including all source material AND the ability for people to use it any way they want, even commercially. It’s like sponsoring Blender development and get a free DVD with an 12 minute movie + all source material. Erm, 4 DVD’s I meant. Some might consider giving away the movie for free bad business, hehe. Anyway, let me see you do better and give it away for free 🙂
August 18th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
It’s nothing more than natural to receive reactions like ”you’re nuts” when you deviate from established practices.
But why would say such things when at the same time you’re familar with the goals of the Blender Foundation?
And:
Look, even while Sintel gets released for free, everything behind that file on you harddrive costs a damn big amount of money.
So when you’re getting good feelings by seeing the Blender logo and you can miss a few bucks, you know what to do! 😉
August 18th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
ik hoop dat ik de dvd een paar dagen erna binnen heb. 🙂
August 18th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Ik denk niet dat de meesten hier Nederlands begrijpen. 😛
But I hope the same!
August 19th, 2010 at 2:51 am
I’m happy with blender and that what count for now.
August 19th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Yeah!! 🙂
August 19th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
I’ve seen on twitter pablo and soenke still at work on improving quality for final release and wanted to say “hi guys!” to this last part of the team still at work and cheers them 🙂
August 19th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
The movie will be released for free on the internet.
Download it and burn it on a dvd and you’ll have your $2,= version.
August 19th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Wooow!!! Increibleee!!!! FELILCIDADEEES!!!! estaré al pendiente de este gran éxito en el mundo Blender!! Abrazos!!! y mucha suerteeee!!!!!
August 20th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I’m really looking froward to the delivery of my 2 DVDs – will make a nice present for another person! You guys are still doing work according to SVN twitter feed, thank you! -> http://twitter.com/blenduriansvn 🙂
August 20th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I’m so looking forward to this release!
August 29th, 2010 at 6:17 am
We’re routing for you! Way to go! Thank You for all you hard work and generosity!
September 1st, 2010 at 6:24 pm
When will be available on youtube?
September 8th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
18 days!!!! AHHHHH!!!! SO EXCITED!!!! I’m not sure if I will buy the DVD, but I am thinking that I probably will!!! I am going crazy about this thing! I think that on the 26th, I will wake up, scream, and then die of excitement LOL… 🙂 going crazy about this! (Oh wait, I already said that!)
September 13th, 2010 at 6:29 am
“34 euros is expensive for a short film 6 to 8 minutes…”
That’s a very short-sighted viewpoint. It’s much, much more than simply being about the film. And 34 EU isn’t much (support) to ask.
September 21st, 2010 at 4:14 am
6 days left!
when you guys say 19:30h in the Netherlands, does that mean 2:30 pm hear in the US?
September 21st, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Hmm, according to the website of the Film Festival, Sintel will also be showed on the 26th of september (16.00h), is this correct?
http://www.filmfestival.nl/nl/films/sintel
September 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 am
I am excited about Sintel movie, looks great !
Congratulations to all Blender artists who made it possible, thank you very much !
Long life to Blender and its artists, still working few centuries please!
September 24th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
I like the torrent idea mentioned in one of the first comments…
September 27th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
But you can’t download the blend files?
when yes I’ll buy it!
juhi!
ps. greeting from Germany 😉
September 27th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
I have been waiting for, thanks!
September 27th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Just 8:00 hours left…. XD.
September 28th, 2010 at 1:59 am
Congratulations for this work, the blender today took a step that will change history!
September 28th, 2010 at 2:54 am
HOOTHOOTHOOT!!!
September 28th, 2010 at 11:05 am
we will show the world what’s possible with opensource and free software.
September 28th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
i don’t have words to appreciate the durian team. cheers guys.
great work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we always support you