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Posted Oct 1, 2012 2:20 UTC (Mon) by ThinkRob (subscriber, #64513)
In reply to: Blender Foundation Movies by ldo
Parent article: Mango open movie project "Tears of Steel" released

I agree wholeheartedly. The effects are very, very good given the budget and the fact that it was produced with stuff that (in theory) anybody can do on their home PC. But it's not *that* great as a film...

The acting was so-so compared to Sintel (I absolutely love Sintel both as a demo and as a short film) and there were one or two effect shots that had some visible flaws (although considering that I've seen quite a few Hollywood movies with sketchy tracking and the occasional bad composite shot I can't really say that makes them any less professional...)

Still, all in all this is an excellent demo and is pretty incredible when you think about it: everything you need (software-wise) to make something like that, you can get for free. And you can run it on a PC that costs a couple hundred dollars. Damn. That's just plain impressive, and a good sign for the amateur film-making community. These are tools that pros would have killed for twenty years ago, and they're both free and Free!

Rock on, Blender.

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Posted Oct 1, 2012 16:31 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

<blockquote>and there were one or two effect shots that had some visible flaws</blockquote>

Can you expand on that? Just curious.

Blender Foundation Movies

Posted Oct 2, 2012 21:04 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I don't know about ThinkRob, but the walking animations of the robots weren't fluid enough to jump the Uncanny Valley to me (also when falling from the tower). The eyepatch was really good (though there was a blip of the Valley when the character first showed up). The button also had something weird about it, but I couldn't put my finger on it. I've only seen it once, so it's not like I analyzed it for these things. FTR, I also had issues with some parts of Avatar (mainly with the mechasuits and flying things, IIRC) which I've been told isn't that bad, so maybe I'm just sensitive to such things.