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Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 8:38 am
by Borgleader
For those of you who've been following the development of Blender (before 2.5) and have come across the projects related to it (Orange, Peach & Apricot) might remember Big Buck Bunny (or... Elephants dream perhaps?). Well they're at it again!
Introducing the Durian Project! 
The Durian project is the new Open Movie project aimed at improving Blender.
Durian Project Website wrote:Yes, it’s about time! The third open movie project had been lined up to start much sooner, but more urgent work (Blender 2.5 coding) forced it into the future. After all, it’s the purpose of the team here in Amsterdam to test and improve the 2.5x versions significantly!
Now we intend to start up September 1, delivering a result around March/April 2010.
Durian Project Website wrote:As usual - like previously for Orange, Peach, Apricot - the Blender Foundation’s interest is to organize projects that will help Blender further:
* Stimulate development of advanced features.
* Validation of Blender by great artists
* Use and improve an open source creation pipeline
* Deliver good publicity and PR for Blender
* Create useful presentation and educational material in Open Content
* Last but not least, provide a fun and inspiring experience for the entire Blender community!
8ce7c1b1c2.jpgWe do this by inviting the best of the talents from the Blender community to work in Amsterdam for half a year or more, in the studio of the Blender Institute. They get excellent working conditions, and full coverage for travel and housing, including a reasonable fee. All of tools we use here for the film are open source, and everything we create, including the final result, is being delivered as free and open content under Creative Commons Attribution.
Blender fans rejoyce!
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 1:25 pm
by WytRaven
Sounds great. I love that whole design-to-demonstrated-real-world-need paradigm underpinning blender's development and glad it's still going strong.
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 1:30 pm
by Borgleader
WytRaven wrote:Sounds great. I love that whole design-to-demonstrated-real-world-need paradigm underpinning blender's development and glad it's still going strong.
Me too
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:56 am
by Borgleader
At the latest Blender Conference, the Durian team revealed the title of the movie (Durian being the name of the project, not the movie itself) as well as a bunch of other information about the movie itself.
To get all the latest news head over to the
Durian website
In the mean time, here is the final concept art for the main character (who's name is coincidentally the same as the movie).
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:40 am
by remus
Cheers, i enjoyed watching/reading that.
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:56 am
by Borgleader
http://durian.blender.org/news/render-d ... nt-update/
Rendering Progress by Brecht the almighty programmer!
Also lots of other news, more artists have been added to the team and others will be joining them in a few weeks. Modeling and animations seem to be coming along nicely
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 2:44 pm
by Borgleader
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfdboHvshg
The trailer for the film is out. I won't lie, my jaw made a hole in my desk
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:26 pm
by suvakas
I have to say, that I'm not impressed.
Seems like an intro for some game rather than independent movie.
Buck Bunny project looked much better compared to this.
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 12:05 am
by PureSpider
Really nice texture work on that one!
Love that comic-ish look WC3/WoW "introduced" (which is also used by Spellforce 2 and many others)!
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 2:00 am
by SaphireS
The look of the trailer is not the final look of the movie, there was barely any postpro and a amount of things will change and look better, I'm sure.
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:22 am
by Borgleader
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:27 am
by neo0.
Fantasy is overrated imo. It seems like every other game or fan made animation is fantasy themed these days..
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:30 am
by pixie
3D Manga, me likes it!
Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 3:21 pm
by Soup
I can't tell whether the face is beautiful, or creepy
The mouth in that image is beautiful, but sometimes the eyes appear too large.. but then not. But then yes.
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Re: Blender - The next open movie project
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:34 am
by matsta
Beautiful images, unfortunately the Sintel logo is the most hideous piece of design of all time.
