Sintel

Published on 30 september 2010

Sintel, the full short. High res 1080p available on the youtube option.

About

Sintel is an open short movie produced by the Blender Foundation. I worked on it as an Art Director from February 2009 to September 2010. Official website www.sintel.org. Description from the official website :

"Sintel" is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. With initial funding provided by 1000s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3D technology as for independent animation film. This 15 minute film has been realized in the studio of the Amsterdam Blender Institute, by an international team of artists and developers. In addition to that, several crucial technical and creative targets have been realized online, by developers and artists and teams all over the world.."

Art direction

Many concept-art and artworks were necessary to capture the epic and fantasy feeling I wanted for Sintel. Here is a sample of the one remaining in the movie.
My tools were Gimp-painter 2.6 and Mypaint 0.6 on Linux Mint 7 Gnome 2.0.

Shaman

Sintel design

More design for Sintel

model-sheet

Sintel portrait

Sintel (old) portrait

Chicken , ballpen quick concept

Hienna, creature on her journey

Ishtar birds

Snow fighting previsualisation. On the original script ; four guardians were waiting for her

Shaman hut, external design

Shaman hut, interior

Shaman hut, previsualisation for the ambiance

Sintel , in Ishtar city, watching the Ziggurat

Ishtar city ; building renovations, and various overlays of architectures era

Ishtar building design

Ishtar alley , design for the first scene. Top view was choosen to show the spacial distance of elements. Grid and dirty waters of Ishtar were removed for technical reason.