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Sintel, the long-running Open Movie project created with Blender, is finally finished and available online.  I’ve embedded the YouTube version below, but there are many other higher-quality versions available for download at their website.

“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.

Download it in MP4 and OGV formats, in Stereo or 5.1 Surround, either directly or (preferably) via BitTorrent via the links here. Next on their todo list is creation of the 4-DVD box set, which they hope to have available for purchase soon.

Sintel, the Durian Open Movie Project.

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The Blender Foundation is making the final push in their “Open Movie Project”, named Sintel.  Just this week they released the first Trailer for the upcoming short film which not only looks like it will be an interesting film, but really showcases how far Blender has come.

With big thanks to Jan Morgenstern for the epic soundtrack, which as usual makes our humble creations look so much better!

We have less than 2 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. Enjoy!

If you like it, you can go ahead and pre-order the movie now as a 4-DVD set that will include not only the movie as a high-quality widescreen DVD, but an HD version in AVI or MOV format, and all of the .blend files, models, and textures.  All could be yours for a mere 34€.

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