Sintel - concept art, art direction

30 september 2010

Classified in : Projects

Sintel, the short movie I worked on from February 2009 to September 2010 as an art director for the Blender Foundation is online, you can download higher quality versions in multiple formats at the official website www.sintel.org or you can watch it here.

From the official website : "Sintel" 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. This 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.."

For this special event, I had the pleasure to answer Alexandre Prokoudine's request about an interview on the website Libre Graphic World. Many Thanks to him !

You can read the interview here.

I also release here a part of the galeries ( More than 2x bonus and pictures are on the official DVD. All pictures in the DVD are avaliable at hi-resolution for you to make wallpapers or prints. ) I will post more here later when DVD will be shipped to respect the DVD premiere.

More on the DVD ( A full page of the Abandoned artworks + the design / style study full / paint-over 3D process / Work In Progress of many pictures / Full first storyboard and other unpublished pictures around 2D the project... ) Watch the screenshots of the DVD under :

The abandoned studies gallery ( DVD Sintel )

The Work in Progress ( DVD Sintel )

The Storyboard + paint-over ( DVD Sintel )

Buy the 4 DVD box
( Movie in Pal / Ntsc / HD / Making of + Documentary + Tutorial + Sources + Bonuses )
on the Blender E-shop

Special thanks to Slug FortyFive for the help ( typos , corrections )

Classified in : Projects

blog post by David Revoy

18 comments

1. DeburgER

friday 01 october 2010, 07:49

wonderful inspiration!!

2. Monica

friday 01 october 2010, 11:11

It's Amazing! Congrats for the great job, i'm looking forward to my copy of the dvd! Greetings from italy!

3. Erick

friday 01 october 2010, 17:19

Muito Maravilhoso trabalho eu me emocionei muito,meus parabéns, sem palavras... (portuguese, PT-BR)

4. Slug45

friday 01 october 2010, 22:18

Really great work!, looking forward for all the extras : )___

5. Ren

tuesday 12 october 2010, 10:01

I just started messing around with Ubuntu, Gimp and Mypaint inspired by what I've seen in your DVD Chaos and evolutions, and I'm eagerly waiting for the box set for all the extra content! Thanks for all the effort you put into showing other peoople your techniques, for sharing your art and for being such a source of inspiration!

6. Deevad

thursday 21 october 2010, 13:40

Thanks for all the feedbacks about Sintel ; the team got a lot of them, and I was fortunate to did a projection of the movie yesterday evening in my city of Toulouse with the ass. Toulibre as well as a talk about it. I hope everyone will receive there DVD soon and enjoy the bonuses

7. opeter

friday 22 october 2010, 19:46

Fantastic work! I love the movie and I love all you concept illustrations!

8. John Garrett

friday 29 october 2010, 05:14

Hi David,
I have been following your blog for awhile now and I learned about MyPaint from your tutorials and discussion about it.
This Movie is amazing and I hope there is plans to continue the story. I hope to order your DVD: chaos and Evolutions soon.
Have fun ant the Blender conference!
~John

9. broomerang

saturday 06 november 2010, 03:42

Depressing ending. What would it have cost to have the baby dragon imprint on her for the last 3 seconds. (Before she commits suicide.)

10. Salad

tuesday 21 december 2010, 10:33

WHAT DID YOU DO!!!
Killing off her very own baby dragon! My three daughters watched this accidentally (over my shoulder, they just LOVE dragons and the lot), and they were totally devastated! They cried for minutes! Lucky for me (and you) you hinted at a second chance with Scale's baby...

I'd say: great work.

Salad

11. Deevad

wednesday 22 december 2010, 18:49

Thanks , our director and scenarist ( Colin Levy, and Esther Wouda ) did a great job to not have a predictable ending. I'm happy it still works.
Sorry if it makes children cry Here I did the concept drawings, and helped into visual choices ; I'm happy they liked the cute baby dragon.

12. Dennis

thursday 10 february 2011, 02:37

Amazing use of open source programs to produce a fantastic story. It's amazing what the Open Source community can do when given the chance.

13. REVOY David

sunday 13 february 2011, 15:07

Thanks Dennis for your comments, and about your article on your website ( http://dennis-graves.info/?p=213 ).

14. NativeTexan210

thursday 23 june 2011, 04:31

It doesn't just make kids cry it nearly made me cry...and I'm a 26 year old guy.

My only thought was "I would have curled up next to scales and let the cave-in take me as I lay next to my friend"

But I also have a 2 year old black lab that I love to death that I know I will end up bawling like a little girl when I eventually have to put her down. :(:( Even the thought of it...nearly 15 years from now...makes me start to tear up.

Sad film...but oh so great. I probably wouldn't have been nearly as great without Scales' death.

15. Adam DeLay

wednesday 24 april 2013, 16:18

This made me sad

16. John

thursday 25 april 2013, 04:15

Amazing story and animation !!

17. kyle

friday 17 may 2013, 17:32

art is nice your writer suck dick though. went out of you way to make it a sad story for no reason. thats not a twist, or good writing, just fucked up

David Revoy