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On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:31:59 +0100 Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > The Blender Institute has released another short film. This new one, > Sintel is about a girl who finds a wounded baby dragon and nurses it > back to health. > > I thought it was a really moving film and the quality was superb (it > easily matches commercial rendered animation in quality, even if it > is only about 15 minutes). > > You can either download it in a variety of formats and resolutions > (there's even talk about a 4K resolution version which could be shown > in a cinema) and a variety of formats (MP4 - H264 with AAC audio, OGG > - Theora video with Vorbis audio or DIVX - H264 with AAC audio) or > you can simply watch it on Youtube (although it really doesn't do it > justice, I ended up watching it on the PS3 on our telly. > > Like Big Buck Bunny, and before that, Elephant's Dream I think it's a > great way to show off what is capable using Open Source software such > as Blender. I'm not sure about Sintel, but it was certainly possible > to download all the Blender files for Big Buck Bunny and Elephant's > Dream so I'd guess eventually they would make the content for Sintel > available. > > It might be of interest to some folks too that there are some videos > and things about what they did in the making of Sintel, I wonder if > some of this might be useful for budding graphics artists out there? > > Anyway, you can find links to download the video and whatnot at > www.sintel.org > > Rob I really like both Big Buck Bunny and Sintel... not so keen on Elephant's Dream. I have suggested them to our resident graphics lecturer who teaches a tonne of Blender stuff too. She likes 'em. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq