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Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-giant-rabbits-in-this-one dept.

Supercharged_Z06 writes "A short film entitled Sintel was released by the Blender Foundation under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (YouTube link). It was created by an international team of artists working collaboratively using a free, open source piece of 3D rendering software called Blender. No Hollywood studio was involved in its making. Pretty remarkable what can be generated these days with open source software and some dedicated, creative talent. If a short film of this quality can be produced without Hollywood right now, imagine what will appear a few more years down the road."

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  1. That is fucking awesome! by airfoobar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Holy crap!

    1. Re:That is fucking awesome! by sammyF70 · · Score: 5, Informative

      You do realize that the point of the Open Movies isn't just to show off Blender's capabilities, but to actually improve it, right? Elefant Dreams, Big Buck Bunny and now now Sintel all resulted in a better Blender.

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      "DRM is like the Ford Pinto: it's a smooth ride, right up the point at which it explodes and ruins your day."-C.Doctorow
    2. Re:That is fucking awesome! by ZosX · · Score: 4, Informative

      Uh....the gimp can work with adjustment layers and 16-bit and 32-bit color? Oh wait...it can't? Crap. You might as well forget about working with camera raw files (12-14-bit) in glorious 16-bit color. Well at least the gimp allows you to mix color in cmyk. Oh wait. It doesn't? Crap. I guess you can forget about using it in any kind of real production environment where colour conversion is critical so you can send out files to print that should have the converted to within cmyk's limited gamut. When you go to print you need to know what your output is going to look like and potentially adjust things in that colorspace. Of course you obviously don't work in graphic design or the printing industry so you don't see the value of these features. Photoshop does so many more things than the gimp and it does them all very, very well. Even the panorama stitching features are above and beyond hugin and it gives better results too. HDR is nicely integrated as well. Yeah you can do a lot of that stuff with open source software, but not in the gimp and not all in one piece of software. For low res, 8-bit web graphics, sure the gimp is good enough, but outside of that it starts getting pretty ugly and quickly becomes the ghetto-fabulous image editor. Even Photoshop Elements kind of blows it away. The interface sucks too. I could go on and on, but if you can't see why the gimp is drastically inferior to photoshop, you really don't know much at all about what you are whining about do you?

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      zosxavius photography
    3. Re:That is fucking awesome! by siDDis · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually you don't have to pay taxes to get free health care. At least not here in Norway. If you have a norwegian social number you get free health no matter what.

      If you make money, you have to pay taxes. If you don't make money and live in the forest, you don't pay taxes. And you still have free health care.

      I'm not really sure how the health care work in details for the rest of europe. But I know it's basically "free" in most european countries compared to the US.

  2. Re:Theatrical short? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.sintel.org/news/get-blender-graphics-on-35mm-film/