Meet the Durian team!

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Project Durian has kicked off this weekend with a week-long meeting of all the team members (except for Campbell Barton). Last night I met them all during dinner in Amsterdam and shot this short movie in which they all introduce themselves (more info on the team on the Durian blog). As a bonus, Ton will be giving away the first details of the plot! (In addition to few other, not-so-shocking details ;-)

PS: yes, I skipped someone – Angela’s husband. That was rather rude of me – terribly sorry!

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    • JamesMRaymond

      sweet! Looking forward to seeing more of this project!!

    • mercury

      vaya; y yo sin haber desayunado :(
      bueno; esto se esta poniendo bueno :)
      saludos…

    • http://shanenewville.deviantart.com Shane Newville

      This is exciting! I can’t wait to see this thing come together. It’s great that they’re planning everything out ahead of time. I think that will make this film a 100 times stronger.

    • Poisos

      Great! Feels like sitting around the campfire with those guys :).
      Thank you Bart!

    • Felix

      I’m gonna *glee* like alil’ girl now, *Glllleeeeeeeeeee*

      awesome! :)

    • http://teogreengage.blogspot.com/ teo_greengage

      the is the real deal folks

    • hippo_head

      For the love of god, don’t underestimate the importance of writing and character development. Blender Institute films have exceled at so much but poor / cliche writing has taken its toll and undermined the storytelling.

    • hippo_head

      oh the irony… “exceled”…

    • rogper

      Hehe I see Ben is the one paying the diner :P
      And so it begins…
      ^_^

    • Alex Blank

      Great to see the team! So excited for the end product.

    • alessio

      Nice supper!
      Can’t wait to see progresses.
      …and to know something more about Brecht’s top-secret coding…

    • Agustin

      OH NO, NO! NO PLEASE, TELL US A CLUE OF THE BRETCH SECRET CODING PROYECT.

      PLEASE, I BEG YOU ALL, IN GOD SAKE PLEASE.

    • random

      LOL Lee from Australia totally reminds me of the German ChildrenTv-presenter Willi Weitzel .

    • AngeloR.

      hahaha…Ton’s voice is like king leonidas of “300″.

      fantastic team…i guess

    • young_voter

      I hope the team takes the script seriously.

    • Agustin

      We have a Abraham Lincoln as 3D generalist!!!!!!! hope he don’t get the same destiny

    • Nixon

      what a nice set of artists and techies :)
      it seems they really having fun workin on this ..at least on the dinner party held there,
      this is a great team of people with extraordinary skill and passion!
      Too bad that Brecht keeps his stuff secret but on the other hand who wouldnt like a surprise after all.
      Best wishes to everyone on the team and thanks for all the effort,
      also for doing this interview and posting it here!

    • HecticHermit

      I wonder is Durian gonna have blood/gore effects since it action oriented or is it gonna be PG-13

    • Velu

      Heya to Angela from Montreal. Make us proud :).

      I hope this is a great experience for all of you guys. Best of luck !

    • MmAaXx

      good luck!

    • http://www.colinlevy.com Colin Levy

      Couldn’t agree more, hippo_head. Already struggling to change people’s perceptions in this regard– solid writing is absolutely paramount. Currently the screenwriting stage is undervalued… all I’ll say for now. :)

    • ethana2

      You know what could be really interesting? An all-star voice cast.
      http://www.appliedsilliness.com/celebrity-voices.html#celebrityvoices
      I bet this guy would do it for free to advertise.

    • ethana2

      Actually, scratch that, seems he isn’t exactly challenged for work and it could be kind of lame anyways.
      It could raise interesting questions about voices and trademarks though.

    • http://www.blendercross.org madturtle

      ….thats the last dinner by daylight outside the cave till they have finished the project!!

      Cool team – have fun and make us proud!

    • http://www.mmp.over-blog.net damien

      Great team! I ‘m very exicted by project Durian. Colin, The french and other, you’re great!

      Good luck!

    • Saverio

      :D what a friendly atmosphere…
      good luck guys..

    • http://www.jarred.co.za Jarred

      Were they having the blender special for dinner?

    • http://hamsterking.com JoOngle

      Talented & Lucky people! ;)

      I have a good feeling about this!

    • http://www.montagestudio.org Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

      Awesome team, can’t wait to see what they’ll cook!

      :D

    • Ben Dansie

      Four score and seven years ago we animated in the dirt. Much easier now.

      On a more serious note – we discussed gore level a bit today and while we reserve the right to change, we think at this point that PG-13 is a reasonable benchmark for gore and blood levels. One of the main reasons was to keep it accessible to a broad audience, allow for it to be viewed in some schools as a learning tool and so on.

      Some Kill Bill was certainly watched today though. Early days for such decisions.

    • pictorali

      Awesome team! I’ve pre-ordered, and I’m looking forward to seeing that all this talent will bring to the table.

    • http://wickes.webs.com Papasmurf

      you guys got my vote and pre-order, and I know of at least one particular person on BA that is going to be very excited to hear there will be a Dragon…

    • LPT

      I would like to know what the ‘very humours story’ was…
      I overheard someone saying ‘there’s a very humours story about that…’