Trailer For Blender Open Movie Sintel Ready 182
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from the showcase dept.
l_i_g_h_s_p_e_e_d writes "The trailer for Sintel is ready. (We discussed the beginnings of this project in 2007.) Sintel is a Blender Open Movie project created using only FLOSS software. 'For the entire creation pipeline in the studio, we will only use free/open source software. We have less than two months now to finish this completely. ... Imagine the tension that's building up here to get everything perfect. For today, we'll celebrate a big step forward.' Download here."
Re:Looking great (Score:1, Interesting)
It's not too late to buy a copy of the movie and every purchase they make allows them to work longer on the movie.
Why would anyone purchase a creative commons movie? Very few people actually buy normal movies that they don't have the right to make a copy of, so there's actually less incentive to pay for something they do have the right to make a copy of. Fire up your torrent machines, pirates... but this one you can download legally.
Re:Looking great (Score:5, Interesting)
People don't mind contributing to something when the perception of the project isn't a nasty profit-machine. Witness the humble indie bundle.
h264 v Theora (Score:3, Interesting)
1080p Trailer:
Ogg Theora 43M
Mp4 H.264 15M
Re:Looking great (Score:4, Interesting)
Why would anyone purchase a creative commons movie? Very few people actually buy normal movies that they don't have the right to make a copy of, so there's actually less incentive to pay for something they do have the right to make a copy of. Fire up your torrent machines, pirates... but this one you can download legally.
Except you can't bittorrent it or get a copy in any other way.
People will pay ahead of time if they want the product to be finished and released. Its really only a hairs-breadth difference from the way people pay for movies today - you buy a ticket before you watch the movie. Its just a longer period of time between buying the 'ticket' and actually watching the movie - and if not enough people buy 'tickets' the movie doesn't get released. Kind of like a movie not testing well and ending up on the shelf instead of being released.
Re:Looking great (Score:5, Interesting)
Why would anyone purchase a creative commons movie?
I ordered the DVD because the Blender community has proven that they can successfully develop a product, tutorials and documentation that opens up the possibility for anyone to to create awesome digital media for very little to no cost versus solutions that typically cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. Ton has done an amazing job leading the Blender Foundation and pulling artists from around the world together to make these open movies, which not only give us all something nice to look at and bring attention to the project but drive a lot of the technical improvements in Blender itself. It's a pretty smart way to go about things but is no small feat and I think shows a lot of dedication and determinism. The Durian team have kept an excellent blog where you can follow their progress and it's pretty insightful and inspirational.
I'm very much behind supporting projects like this and although I'm no master Blender artist I wanted to support them and buying the DVD is a great way to do that. You know exactly what you're funding with your donation, and you even get a keepsake containing a lot of resources from the project that will help you learn Blender yourself if you chose to.
Rock on Durian team :)
Re:Looking great (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:Looking great (Score:2, Interesting)
If you like following Blender Open Movies, then you should know about The Morevna Project [morevnaproject.org], a traditional animation project which uses Synfig in addition to Blender. It's a sci-fi (or is that SyFy?) version of a Russian fairy tale. It's much longer than the Blender movies, and is intended to be a real story, not a tech demo. Download preview video [archive.org]. YouTube version [youtube.com]
Re:Theora needs twice the data as H.264 Main (Score:3, Interesting)
My own subjective tests for H.264 match that comparison. With tons of quality settings enabled, 256kbit H.264 seems to roughly match 640kbit theora for perceived quality.
But with all those settings turned on, I just barely get 30fps encoding on a 3.5ghz Phenom II X4.
Re:I Just Wrote an Open Source Book! (Score:3, Interesting)
"It's an Open Source Book!" Aren't you paying attention?
Yes, an "open source" book made with "open source" tools was a pretty significant event when it first happened, back in the nineteen-eighties! Now it's routine, and free/libre/open-source books (mostly technical manuals, but with a few works of fiction) are common enough that the fact that they're open is not particularly notable, but that wouldn't have happened without the pioneering efforts of the people who first set out to achieve that goal.
There's even a vague analogy between what happened with Blender and what happened when Don Knuth decided he wasn't satisfied with any of the commercial typesetting systems for his textbooks, except that Blender started as a commercial, proprietary system, rather than being written from scratch for the job.
The fact that Free/Libre film-making is starting to reach the point that Free/Libre book-making reached in the '80s is pretty stunning to me. Yes, in a couple of decades, it may seem ho-hum, but that doesn't mean it's not exciting now!