Short Film: 'Sintel' by Blender Foundation

'Sintel' is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. With initial funding provided by 1000s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3D technology as for independent animation film.

This 15 minute film has been realized in the studio of the Amsterdam Blender Institute, by an international team of artists and developers. In addition to that, several crucial technical and creative targets have been realized online, by developers and artists and teams all over the world.

Visit the sintel.org website to find out more about this short film, or to purchase the 4-DVD box with a lot of extras that includes the original files and software that was used, plus documentary, tutorials, quadsplit, documentation, raw footage and more.

Make sure you watch it in HD and in full screen too!


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Short Film: 'Tears Of Steel'

"Tears of Steel" is a sci-fi short film that was realized with crowd-funding by users of the open source 3D creation tool Blender. The target was to improve and test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film - and to make a compelling sci-fi film in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The film itself, and all raw material used for making it, have been released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Visit the tearsofsteel.org website to find out more about this, or to purchase the 4-DVD box with a lot of extras that includes the original files and software that was used, plus documentary, tutorials, quadsplit, documentation, raw footage and more.

Make sure you watch it in HD and in full screen too!


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