After I published the ‘Digital Makeup’ video by Sebastian König this week, people were quick to point out this approach didn’t work for expressions. Well, no more – Sebastian figured it out.
Mango: Digital Makeup, Part 2: Face Deform Test
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Category Archives: Blender Institute
Mango: Script is Ready!
Director/writer Ian Hubert has posted a glimpse of the Mango script. ‘No story, maximum impact’? Click and see..
Mango Pre-sale Started, New Concept Art
Support the Blender Institute’s next Open Movie Project, codenamed ‘Mango’, by pre-ordering the project DVD for €34 (USD 43.52).
Mango: Artists added
The Blender Institute has announced four new members of the Mango project: Francesco Siddi, Kjartan Tysdal, Nicolo Zubbini and Roman Volodin (2).
Project Mango kick-off
The next Open Movie project by the Blender Institute, Project Mango, is now officially open! Director Ian Hubert (of Project London fame) will be director of the project, which focuses on visual effects (hence the cool sci-fi header on the Mango blog). Two other team members are also already known: Jeremy Davidson (Sintel character animation) and Sebastian Koenig (leading Blender trainer and Tomato tracker wizard extraordinaire). They’re still looking for new team members.
Link
- Project Mango kick-off [Mango blog]
Blender and Sintel win 3D World Magazine CG Awards
Both Blender and Sintel have won Awards from 3D Worlds annual CG Awards. Blender picked up the award for Software Update of the Year, and Sintel won for Best Short CG Animation of the Year (Short Form). Congratulations to everyone involved!
Ton’s response to Blender winning the Software Update of the Year Award:
We’ve had many compliments for delivering this UI and tools redesign project. It’s been a huge task – over three years of work – something free or open-source projects typically are advised to never even attempt! An official recognition from 3D World readers means a lot to us: thanks!
Sintel speaks about her experience on Sintel
(Animation by Beorn Leonard, Audio by Sintel voice actress Halina Reijn)
Sintel: Watched over 2.5 million times on YouTube
Jan Morgenstern writes:
The official #Sintel version on YouTube has crossed the 2.5 million views mark!
If you’re wondering what this is all about, click here ;-)
Sintel Soundtrack Wins Two Jerry Goldsmith Awards
Congratulations to Jan Morgenstern, who composed the sintel soundtrack, and to Esther Wouda who wrote the lyrics to the credit song “I Move On”, and to the whole Sintel crew on winning two Jerry Goldsmith awards at the International Film Music Festival. The awards were for best short film music and best song.
Announcement on the Durian project blog.
Offical Announcement on the International Film Music Festival Website (Spanish)
Sintel Sighting: NovaCut Video Editor
NovaCut video editor, a proposed open source, collaborative video editing platform, is currently looking for funding to finish development of the project. They used Sintel in part of the ad for their kickstarter page. Go and take a look and consider donating if you want to support developing a new open source video editor too!
