{"id":9739,"date":"2010-10-23T08:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2010-10-23T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T13:50:47","slug":"sintel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9739","title":{"rendered":"Sintel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=641\">Four years ago, I wrote a tirade about Blender<\/a>.  I was bitter and angry that the thing was very much impossible to learn and the docs were very much not written yet. I gather it&#8217;s improved greatly since then. For example, it was used to make this movie:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRsGyueVLvQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>From the YouTube description: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sintel&#8221; 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.<br \/>\nThis 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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hats off. That&#8217;s some amazing work.  I&#8217;m happy to see Blender thriving and helping people make cool stuff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, I wrote a tirade about Blender. I was bitter and angry that the thing was very much impossible to learn and the docs were very much not written yet. I gather it&#8217;s improved greatly since then. For example, it was used to make this movie: Link (YouTube) From the YouTube description: &#8220;Sintel&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}