Sintel, the Durian Open Movie Project

Its been a while since we had a development post and while we’re always busy with blender much of it is work in progress.

Most of my time is spent on physics and bug fixes at the moment but seeing as it was my birthday on Friday, I took some time to work on something more fun :D. Enjoy!

– Campbell

Update:

• Image editor can be selected in the user preferences ‘File’ section.
• Save as PNG rather then TARGA to workaround reported problem with adobe photoshop not saving alpha.
• Render to an off-screen buffer rather then grabbing the view, removes view text and allows images editing images bigger then the view.
• Added option to capture high resolution images rather then using the viewport size.

I know you all are probably sick of my posts. Rigging is so boring, after all. No one wants to hear me talk about it. So I’ll keep this short.
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Hey community! How are you all? 🙂

Well my journey at the institute comes to an end.  I was suppose to stay here up until the end of the projects, but stuff came up (i.e. Life and job!) which I can’t put aside! And so, I am leaving tomorrow afternoon to go back in the cold winter of Montreal, Canada.

And, for the people that were on IRC and the live stream during the sprint or the people who read the ‘rumours’ on the intertubes, no Ton didn’t fire me 😛  Back during the sprint me and Ton were just joking about my departure, because hey, it’s better to laugh about it than to cry!

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More power in the animation department: Beorn started today as character animator. He was already living in Amsterdam, so it was an easy decision to add him during the final months. Beorn has been doing a course at Animation Mentor (using Blender) and already proved to be a very fast and skilled character animator.

Beorn is born Australian, and since recently with British nationality too. More euro power! 😉

-Ton-

BTW 1: On the picture, Beorn, Campbell’s ever leak bicycle, and whiteboard with secret instructions.

BTW 2: I’ve already seen so much cool stuff here in the studio… but the artists don’t like to share it yet! Just wait a bit, they are making it really awesome!

Sintel shapes, 12 examples

some quick tests combining shapes, screencaptures

Sintel pupils dilate, test renders

Note: This blog post is only focused on facial shapes. Texture is still in progress.

Our main character Sintel has a total of 55 shapes. These shapes have all been hooked up to Nathan’s facial rig. Tomorrow I will start creating various poses (phonemes & emotions) for our facial pose library.

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Actors Halina Reijn and Thom Hoffman were in a recording studio in Amsterdam and gave their voices to Sintel and The Shaman. For the occasion, Clark Levy turned into SuperColin…

Ali

Will you just look at the number of models posted the past couple days on BlendSwap!  Check it out!

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