Sintel
| Sintel | |
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 Sintel promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Colin Levy |
| Written by | Esther Wouda |
| Produced by | Ton Roosendaal |
| Starring | Halina Reijn Thom Hoffman |
| Music by | Jan Morgenstern |
| Layouts by | David Revoy |
| Distributed by | Blender Foundation |
Release dates |
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Running time | 14 minutes 48 seconds |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Language | English |
| Budget | €400,000[2] |
Sintel, code-named Project Durian during production, is a 2010 animated
The name comes from the Dutch word sintel, which can mean 'cinder',[4] or 'ember'.[5]
Overview
Work began in May 2009. The film was officially released on 27 September 2010 at the Netherlands Film Festival.[1] The online release was made available for download on 30 September 2010.[6] The film was viewed over 1,000,000 times in a matter of weeks. By May 2020, it was viewed 5.2 million times on YouTube.[6]
Plot
The main character, Sintel, is attacked while traveling through a wintry
Sintel is ready to give up when the shaman tells her that they are in dragon lands, showing her the glyph on her attacker's spear as proof. She finds the tree pictured on the spear, and near it a cave with an adult dragon and his baby. The baby runs away upon seeing Sintel, and the adult dragon attacks. After a brief battle the adult dragon pins Sintel to the ground, but freezes when he recognizes her scent. Sintel takes advantage of this momentary pause and stabs the dragon in the heart. As she is about to land the killing blow, she notices the scar on his wing is exactly the same as her old friend's. Sintel discovers in a moment of horror that she has just killed Scales.
Scales bleeds out rapidly, and Sintel stares in shock at her reflection in a pool of blood. It is revealed that she is significantly older than she has appeared throughout the film. She has much gray hair, worn and wrinkled skin, and several scars on her body. The long search for Scales had lasted many years, and she had never realized that Scales would have grown up. Her single-minded quest to get back her friend, and to take revenge on the large dragon who took Scales away, contributed to her mistaking Scales for the small dragon. The cave begins to collapse as Scales gives his last breath, and Sintel runs for the entrance.
After mourning over the friend she killed, Sintel leaves, heartbroken. Scales' baby, having nowhere else to go, follows her.
Announcements
Some sections were displayed on 25 October 2009,
Technical information
Following
The film was funded by the Blender Foundation, donations from the Blender community, pre-sales of the film's
Improvements to Blender
As with the previous Blender Open Movie Projects, Blender developers worked extensively to improve the software in accordance with the needs of the movie team. Improvements were made in the user interface, the particle system, sculpting, shading, the render pipeline, constraints, and smoke simulation. These features were released to the public with Blender v. 2.50 alpha through 2.54 beta.[14]
Copyright incident
On 5 April 2014, Sintel was temporarily blocked from viewing on the Blender Foundation's official YouTube channel after
Reviews
Dutch daily newspaper Het Parool featured a capture of the film on its front page, along with a short review describing it as "darker and less accessible than its child friendly predecessors," but also stating that in "image quality, detail and characters, the film is on par with Hollywood animation."[16]
Colin Levy
Colin Levy has won a 2007 YoungArts Award,
Game
A game based on Sintel was officially announced on blenderartists.org on 12 May 2010. Alpha version became available in July 2012.
References
- ^ a b "Durian Open Movie Project » Blog Archive » Sintel official premiere". Durian Open Movie Project Blog. 1 September 2010.
- ^ "Blender Foundation Releases Open Source Movie Sintel". NewTeeVee. 1 October 2010. Archived from the original on 4 October 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
- ^ "Interview with Sintel's art director David Revoy | Libre Graphics World". libregraphicsworld.org. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ "Definition of Cinder". Dictionary.net.
- ^ "Logo/identity design". Durian.blender.org.
- ^ a b c "Sintel — Official website". Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ^ Durian, Project. "Durian First Minute — 01". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ ""Sintel" Trailer, Durian Open Movie Project". YouTube. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "Sintel Pre-premiere". Durian.blender.org. 19 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Sintel Official Premiere". Durian.blender.org. 16 August 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Sintel Release Expected Thursday, September 30th". 23 September 2010.
- ^ a b "About". Big Buck Bunny site. Blender Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 October 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
- ^ "Blender Institute". Blender Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 May 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
- ^ "Blender 2.56a Beta". Blender Foundation.
- ^ Phipps, Simon (14 April 2014). "Sony and Google gang up for an illegal video takedown". InfoWorld. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ "Animatie 'Sintel' zet de standaard (Animation 'Sintel' sets the standard)". Het Parool. 9 September 2010.
- ^
- "YoungArts Winners" (PDF). youngarts.org. 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- "Martin Scorsese's List". Colin Levy. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit(1922)
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens(1922)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Napoleon (1927)
- La Grande Illusion (1937)
- La Regle de Jeu(1939)
- Les Enfants du Paradis(1945)
- Roma, citta aperta(1945)
- La Belle et la Bête(1946)
- Paisa(1946)
- Ladri di biciclette(1948)
- La Terra Trema (1948)
- Ikiru (1952)
- Umberto D(1952)
- Tokyo monogatari(1953)
- Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
- Sansho dayu(1954)
- Shichinin no samurai(1954)
- I Soliti Ignoti(1958)
- Les quatre cents coups(1959)
- A bout de souffle(1960)
- L'avventura(1960)
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli(1960)
- Tirez sur le pianiste(1960)
- Il Sorpasso (1962)
- Tengoku to jigoku(1963)
- Bande a part (1964)
- Prima della rivoluzione(1964)
- Blowup (1966)
- Week End (1967)
- Kōshikei(1968)
- Le Boucher (1970)
- Händler der vier Jahreszeiten(1971)
- Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes(1972)
- Angst essen Seele auf(1974)
- Im Lauf der Zeit(1976)
- Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle(1976)
- Der amerikanische Freund(1977)
- Die Ehe der Maria Braun(1979)
- ^ "Press". Colin Levy. 24 November 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ "My Grandfather's Memory Book". vimeo. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ Levy, Colin (6 March 2018). "Video: Opinion - My Grandfather's Memory Book". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
External links
- Official website
- Sintel Press Release
- Sintel on YouTube
- Sintel Archived 18 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine at the Netherlands Film Festival
- Sintel at IMDb
- The short film Sintel is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
- Sintel making of/documentary on YouTube
