Comments on: Netherlands Film Fund supports Durian

By: J.

J. — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:02:46 +0000

Will the premiere screening be projected in 4K?

By: DwarvenFury

DwarvenFury — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:23:59 +0000

Congratulations all! I’m looking forward to seeing more about how the extra funds will be spent, particularly for the render farm.

By: Mashu

Mashu — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:29:01 +0000

Please take Your time and use funds wisely. I would better wait longer, than see wasted money, which I hope won’t happen in this case concerning how talented people are in the team.

Good luck and congrats for additional funds !

By: Ton

Ton — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:08:57 +0000

Anil (and others): we don’t do 3d stereoscopic yet. It is something we first need a sponsor for. And not only for render time, an efficient stereo 3d film has to be designed and edited as such, which adds to our work load.

By: Corniger

Corniger — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:05:48 +0000

Wow, new tream members!!! Can I send my portfolio, too?
In fact, I’ll type it out right here:

My abilities:
make coffee
cook
wipe floors&keyboards
kiss/anoint feet
praise the Ton
delete default cubes
filter air
change diapers in pressing situations
play dummy for dismemberment scenes and make croaking sound REAL
take any amount of beating for Blender crashes!

My conditions: I want to stay dressed at all times except when I take showers

If that sounds attractive to the team – something must be wrong

Cheers and I raise my cup to you guys, be it only filled with water! Damn, it’s empty… gotta refill… YOU ARE LEGEND!!!

By: D

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:57:40 +0000

With concern to Alex’s points, probably. Furthermore, the team will probably require a crash course in 3D cinematography, since the 2D and 3D forms of cinema are definitely two very different beasts; and what works in 2D cinema may not work in 3D, and vice versa.
Perhaps in a future Blender Institute project, a whole 3D-trained cinematographer may be hired!

By: Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge)

Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:48:55 +0000

Awesome, good to hear Bens on the team now as well, it feels like the Durian project is really underway now with their full team and 2.5 in alpha, going on beta.

And for everyone going on about 3D stereoscope > I think the team have more than enough on their plate with 4K, let alone this new 3D stuff, it would effectively mean twice as much rendering anyway. If it was to be included in the Durian project, it would have been planned right from the start. Stuff like that cant just be thrown in, it would destroy the already fragile timeline put in place for the project.

By: Francisco Ortiz

Francisco Ortiz — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:29:38 +0000

Nice! Can you bring back David now? More sketches! More concept art!

No no wait! Hire the entire Academy of Kung Fu that’s it!… NO… Ermn… Spend everything with marshmallow…
…Yeah!… Marshmallow… Definitely…!

By: anil nair

anil nair — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:11:00 +0000

ton,

3D (stereoscope ) is possible ?

By: Ton

Ton — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:56:30 +0000

rafster: our first two films were both totally awesome, and definitely more than technical demos. Compared to other short animations delivered with Film Fund blessings in the past years we didn’t do bad at all!
That doesn’t take away that you can look back at ED and BBB and try to do things better; script and story development was one of the things we try to improve for Sintel. If this works out well we’ll find out in half a year