Durian DVD available for pre-ordering

Bart · July 30, 2009

Like all open projects by the Blender Foundation, project Durian will be partially financed pre-selling the movie, it’s assets and extensive documentation and (video-) training material on DVD. If you pre-order before september 15th your name will also appear in the movie’s credits!

The Durian blog now has a cool live sales-thermometer to see how they’re doing. Did you order a copy yet?

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Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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n-pigeon

30 July 2009 at 18:46

Awesome illustration :D

invertedNormal

30 July 2009 at 18:46

so sweeeeeet!
legendary shtuff happening here =D

Ed Caspersen

30 July 2009 at 18:52

Order submitted. At least this time I made the deadline.

Robo3Dguy

30 July 2009 at 19:15

Money meter thermometer thingys are insanely awesome!! I love the style of this one.

SebastianErler

30 July 2009 at 19:30

Great!

I watched out for this news every day the last two weeks.
This is a “must have” for me ;)

Jeff

30 July 2009 at 19:36

Is there going to be a blu ray too or did that not sell well with BBB?

Code

30 July 2009 at 20:12

Ordered and payed for!

Good luck guys!!

ward7299

30 July 2009 at 20:13

just ordered mine a few minutes ago :D something to look forward to :D

aws357

30 July 2009 at 22:13

Ordered mine. I’ve been waiting so long to see some action and realistic characters :)

I feel all hot and fuzzy inside…

Ben Dansie

30 July 2009 at 22:55

@Jeff – too early to say about the blu ray either way. Rest assured we will make it known on the blog if it does become an option.

Robbie Losee

31 July 2009 at 05:16

@ SebastianErler – Yeah, me too!
Can’t wait to see all the improvements that come from this project. I am pacing the ceiling with excitement looking forward to 2.5, even though I know it will take some time to do all that amazing coding work.

Tim De Graeve

31 July 2009 at 06:46

Yippy, ordered mine too.
I think they will reach their goal of 2000 DVDs really fast this year after the success of Big Buck Bunny.

[Fractal]

31 July 2009 at 07:56

I was waiting for this news.

Three full DVDs is really good. Tons of info, and material to learn from.

I have ordered this too

BIG Thanks !!!! to the Durian and blender staff.

RedBirdiii

31 July 2009 at 08:01

Why not offer the Blu-Ray disk as well now?
Should I order the DVD first and then order the Blu-Ray when it’s out as well?

pocax

31 July 2009 at 08:28

Hii great news, i want to participate in the durian open movie! Beacause durian is the best fruit in my country!(Indonesia)

zapman

31 July 2009 at 09:56

I’m in! Ordered and payed! :D

MuMu33

31 July 2009 at 10:45

@RedBirdiii: Me too, I don’t understand.
Could we have a blu-ray version with a code to download the models and cie on our computer?

ton

31 July 2009 at 12:08

Hi all,

The Blu-ray of ED & BBB was independently produced by Imagion in Germany, and kindly offered to us for resale. Unfortunately the process of mastering and reproduction of this format is tedious and not commonly available yet. Only few companies do this right now, at quite high expenses. The advantage of DVD is that we can do it simply all in-house, and have a medium nearly everyone can read. Blu-ray still is only available at a quite small percentage of computers.

When we’re getting close to final, I’ll definitely try to get a Blu-ray version arranged too. HD is simply so much better than this stupid PAL or NTSC format… and a dual layer Blu-ray can hold 50 GB, sufficient to put a load of extras on!

http://www.imagion.de/en/news/news-article/article/3/big-buck-bunny-opensource-goes-blu-ray.html

-Ton-

Zachary Lace

31 July 2009 at 21:52

I just pre-ordered my copy! I cannot wait! Keep up the great work everyone!

panzi

31 July 2009 at 22:29

Ordered my copy. I’m really excited about Durian. Finally we will see farstharys work in a cinematic video.

RedBirdiii

1 August 2009 at 09:33

OK.. I’ll order the DVD version.. but I have a request..
I would like to have the MP4 HD version inside the DVD compatible with Playstation 3, please!
Thank you!

paulica

3 August 2009 at 07:39

Thank a ton, Ton! :)

Mathias

3 August 2009 at 23:28

If you only would add the movie in a decent HD format. AVI has do die quickly and mov is obsolete as well. At least use MP4 encoded with x264 (by a skilled person) with AAC audio or store it – as I prefere – in mkv and add FLAC sound.
I would have bought BBB if it had that feature. But if I know I have download a copy of the movie anyway, I don’t buy an inferior version…

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