《Blender制作开源电影全教程》3D Tutorials Durian Open Movie Project: Sintel (4DVD 25G)

Blender Cookie 出品的由 Jonathan Williamson 讲解的CG视频教程，Blender 2.5-2.6版本的CG系列培训教程共分5部分。

经过一年多的制作，Blender 基金会代号“榴莲”开放影片计划 Sintel 即将在荷兰电影节上进行首次公映。

没有任何好莱坞动画工作室参，主要特点是完全使用免费开源的自由软件创作。比如，用 Blender 进行3D图形、合成和视频编辑任务，用GIMP和Inkscape作图和绘画，在OpenEXR中渲染输出，用Python写脚本，在SVN中储存数据等等。本教程内包含制作这部电影的 几乎所有素材 以及电影的创意来源的各个方面。

Blender 基金会上一个开放影片计划 Big Buck Bunny 收到好评，这一次的 Sintel 一改前作轻松搞笑的风格，将为观众展现：约12分钟的 3D 动画电影。短小精干的史诗题材，具有情感张力和众多动作场面。适宜青少年观看。由女孩担当主角。运镜上类似好莱坞以及大型游戏宣传片。

与之前的几部开放影片项目一样，本次 Sintel 也将会以 Creative Commons Attribution 协议发布，并提供包括所有原始的素材的 4 DVD 版本。

English | 720x480 | 3 hours | MPEG-2 | 24.1 GB

Gender: elearning

In total 12 artists and three developers were invited to come over to Amsterdam for almost a year to create this fantasy action-based 3D short movie with Blender. Lead by renowned Blender artists Colin Levy (direction) and David Revoy (art direction) and with a script from Esther Wouda - based on ideas from famous Dutch cartoonist Martin Lodewijk - and music by Jan Morgenstern, this has been an exciting project!

Just like project Orange, and Peach and Apricot, the end result itself and all of the production files are being published under the Creative Commons, free to be reused and for everyone to learn from. 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. Special attention has been spent on animation techniques, smoke / fire simulations, Global Illumination, sculpting, micro detail rendering, and getting the new Blender 2.5 well tested and improved.

Contents:

DVD 1: NTSC (4 GB)

* Sintel film (15m)

* Documentary by Ali Boubred (60m)

* Outtakes, with commentary videos by Colin (11m)

* 8 commentary tracks (director, writer, composer, rigger, entire team, animators, render team, coders)

* 8 subtitle languages

* Special DVD credit scroll

DVD 2: PAL (8 GB)

* Same structure as NTSC disc

* Additional 4 GB of studio data

DVD 3: Extras (8 GB)

* Html interface to browse the contents

* Sintel film in HD (5.1 and stereo mp4)

* Ali Boubred documentary in HD

* 29 tutorial videos, by 10 people, almost 5 hours.

* 4-split video of film, in storyboard, directors layout, opengl animation, final.

* High resolution artwork (incl poster, 4k renders)

* David Revoy concept art gallery

* Weeklies gallery + fun avi tests

* Esther Wouda on script progress and article on the screenplay

* the Live Edit: Blender sequencer with every shot as avi + grading setup

* Blender 2.5 render branch binaries

* OpenEXR originals from the render farm, 1 for every shot (220)

* Trailer

DVD 4: Data (8 GB)

* Full export of the production svn, all models, textures, animation & shot .blend files

* Renderfarm software (py scripts)

* Planning board files, breakdown