Comments on: Durian update: 150 submissions, and DivX is main sponsor

By: Hitechboy

Hitechboy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:38:19 +0000

It's good to see a little interaction between the opensource and commercial world.
It's all to easy to become biased and limit yourself in ways you dint need to.
Does anyone know if there will be 4k

By: jap

jap — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:28:58 +0000

i agree someone should set up a site for contributing ideas to the project
that may or not be used in the upcoming film
that would create a real feeling of an open community working together in an open source project

By: Blendiac

Blendiac — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:32:47 +0000

@Wookie1

What I would love to see would be more ability for the community to help out in the minor bits and pieces of the main Durian movie. For example, have the concept artists post sketches of background items that would be useful, then the community is given somewhere they can upload meshes and textures. Any that are good enough can be selected to be used in the movie.

By having everyone working from the main concept art, you keep the unified style. By giving the team to choose which parts they want, you ensure quality. By allowing hundreds / thousands of community members to contribute (even if you only use 1% of contributions) we could achieve a level of detail and epic scale that would be very difficult for a handful of artists alone.

By: darkfire

darkfire — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:21:44 +0000

I hope that divx does push Divx 7. Forcing h.264 and mkv support on dvd players. Now that would be a good thing right. They need to be Divx certified, so this is a great way to push the standard.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:56:53 +0000

Would love to have worked on this project. Unfortunately/Fortunately my wife and 5 month old baby would have missed me had I been accepted.
Good Luck. Can't wait to see how Blender/the community benefits.

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By: David J

David J — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:59:40 +0000

I hope DivX doesn't try to push their new DivX 7 format, which 90% of current DVD players can't use. That would be as useful as putting it back on VCR :-)

It would be nice to have a video encoding session during the upcoming Blender Conference, maybe even by the DivX guys.

By: CoyoteNZ

CoyoteNZ — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:18:20 +0000

All of these formats confuse me as well.

I'm still looking for a well encoded, high as possible res copy of Elephants Dream that will work on my iPhone, as that is what I always have on me.

By: Tom (not Ton)

Tom (not Ton) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:19:56 +0000

@ Wookie1 That's a pretty cool idea…maybe an "unofficial" sequel team could collaborate worldwide from home. That'd be pretty interesting.

By: Tom (not Ton)

Tom (not Ton) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:44:35 +0000

Great to hear. Sponsorship and submissions. Should be fun to watch it come together.

3DMAGIX- sigh, that didn't last long.