Sintel is the main character of the third open movie of the same name produced by the blender foundation. Blender is a powerful, professional, and free open source 3d graphics tool that can be used to produce everything from single 2d stills, to full 3d movies in broadcast and cinema quality, and even interactive 3d content for standalone playback. Special attention has been spent on animation techniques, smoke fire simulations, global illumination, sculpting, micro detail rendering, and getting the new blender 2. The blender store is operated by blender institute in amsterdam, the netherlands. The previous big buck bunny and elephants dream have been a huge success and associated the blender name and the foundation itself with the highest quality animation worldwide.
Sintel tells the story of a friendship between a girl named sintel, a baby dragon and the desperate lengths. The thing is that 4k means a resolution of 4096 x 1744 pixels. Our users offer their 3d blends and models to help support the blender community recreational users and professionals alike. Blender is the free open source 3d content creation suite used for creating animation, visual effects, interactive 3d applications or video games. As if the hd had not been spectacular enough, the durian team has just released a 4k version of sintel. Sintel is a next in a series of visually stunning and captivating short animation films initiated by the blender foundation.
In total 12 artists and three developers were invited to come over to amsterdam for almost a year to create this fantasy actionbased 3d short movie with blender. For the entire creation pipeline in the studio, we will only use freeopen source software. So, you may ask yourself what is so impressive about that. Blender is a free and opensource 3d computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3d printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3d applications, and computer games. Lodewijk on blender s third short 3d animation movie. The 4k files are being copied to usb drives to be shipped to our. Blender provides a broad spectrum of modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and video postprocessing functionality in one package. Blender stack exchange is a question and answer site for people who use blender to create 3d graphics, animations, or games.
Whether you are an animator, modeler, vfx, game developer, 3d printing, you name it. The story will be about a girl by a name sintel and the dragon from the short film sintel, released by blender foundation more than a year ago. You can also find animated and rigged characters in blender format here. Lite version of sintel character model is available. Blender is the free and open source 3d creation suite. Blender cloud is a web based service developed by blender institute that allows people to access the training videos and all the data from the open projects. A flashback reveals that sintel found scales with its wing injured and helped care for it, forming a close bond with it. It was produced by ton roosendaal, chairman of the blender foundation, written by esther wouda, and directed by colin levy, at the time an artist at pixar. The full video is available for streaming and download after the link. Blender is a downloadable 3d graphic software or content suite for windows, mac and linux platforms. Trailer for blender open movie sintel ready slashdot. Building on the success of elephants dream and big buck bunny, sintel takes you on a journey with amazing landscapes, struggles for survival and, yes, dragons.
With initial funding provided by s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3d technology as for. Short film sintel 3d movie is a short computer animated film by the blender institute, part of the blender foundation. It was made at the blender institute, part of the blender foundation. Ben dansie released a lite version of sintel s character file under a cc license for educational and fan fiction purposes the original files along with all the png textures was over 1gb large, so it was all simplified. The film, with working title durian, will be realized in free and open source software, released and distributed as open content. Short film sintel 3d movie blender video animation.
By the time its wing recovered and it was able to fly, scales was caught by an adult dragon. Sintel tells a story of a young girl on a long and dangerous quest to save her best. Browse and download from hundreds of user submitted blender3d blends. Blender website encode made by mathias linden, thanks. However, a fullhd version is now available for download. Sintel is a beautiful 3d character created for the durian movie project sintel. With again over a thousand fixes and many important updates. Register, login and submit your blender models now, it only takes a few minutes and helps fellow 3d artists around. The gray stone texture is taken from the game sintel. The movie was produced with the blender 3d open source software, and the result as well as all of the raw material is being released under a liberal creative commons license that allows commercial reuse. This independent production was financed by the blender community, supported by the netherlands film fund, cinegrid amsterdam, and with sponsorship from several international companies. We have less than two months now to finish this completely.
More resolution implies also, more details and an outstanding quality of image. This film gave a huge drive to the development of the free open source 3d content creation suite blender for the entire year 2011. We discussed the beginnings of this project in 2007. You guys did a great job, amazing graphics and vfx. Blender foundation releases open source movie sintel gigaom. The training requires a good understanding of modeling basics in blender. There were many points to conduce along this production. Welcome to the community driven, blender 3d model repository. Sintel, codenamed project durian during production, is a 2010 computeranimated fantasy short film. We welcome and encourage you to register and submit your models.
Home of the blender project free and open 3d creation. With initial funding provided by s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3d technology as. Uhd 3840 wide theres also a 4k ultrahd 3840 wide h264 encoded version available now. Sintel is a blender open movie project created using only floss software. It supports the entirety of the 3d pipelinemodeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2d animation pipeline. Blender s features include 3d modeling, uv unwrapping, texturing, raster graphics editing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation. The primary aim of the film is to showcase what blender, an open source 3d animation package, is capable of. Sintel is a scifi fantasy short film, starring a little girl that befriends a baby dragon, only to face off against a much larger variety of its species to save her unusual friend. Of course, this article should have been posted in the past, but it is.
Revenues of the store are being used to support blender projects open movies and software development and organising the blender foundation duties. Official youtube channel for blender, the free and open source 3d creation suite. More importantly, the team has challenged blender itself to the max, inspiring the developer community to prove blender is ready for feature quality 3d production. Sintel is an independently produced short film, initiated by the blender foundation as a means to further improve and validate the freeopen source 3d creation suite blender. Thanks to ton and all the team for all the efforts and benefits to blender. This fantasy short film from 2010 pushed the blender 2. The blender foundation have finished the 4k superhd version of sintel. Blender foundation has officially premiere online its independently produced animated short sintel. Este modelo ha sido creado enteramente en blender 2. Choose from a massive range of blender 3d models, made by blender artists and users just like you. The film follows a girl named sintel who is searching for a baby dragon she calls scales.
Great milestone for composer jan morgenstern and lyrics writer esther wouda, for the entire team, for open source movies and creative commons, and of course everyone who helped making sintel possible. Like the foundations previous filmselephants dream and big buck bunny, the film was made using blender, a free software application for animation created and supported by the same foundation. It is opensource, free to download and use but requires a considerable investment of time and effort from the serious user and rewards her with the flexible software and skills to model in 2 and 3d, animate, render and process images and videos to an awardwinning professional standard. However story is bit complex to understand, but as this movie was to prove the capabilities of blender 3d, you guys did the same fantastically. If these errors can be repaired using blender its ok. Sintel is an open movie from the blender foundation licensed under the creative commons attribution 3. Blender comes from the notforprofit blender foundation. Sintel project durian is blender foundations third open movie, produced in the studio of the blender institute in amsterdam, the netherlands. Free blender model downloads 3d model downloads for. Blender is an integrated application that enables the creation of a broad range of 2d and 3d content. Blender is an opensource software used for modeling, uv unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, nonlinear editing, composing, and creating interactive 3d applications that includes video games, animated films. Users and sponsors of the 3d program blender finance this project, with as main goal to further develop publicly available advanced 3d animation techniques.
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