Many years ago when I was trying to get into 3D by myself I tried various softwares and among those were Blender, a completely free, open source 3D package. I remember trying to learn the program back then without much success and the program still suffers from the same thing today as before. An absolutely HORRIBLE user interface that looks nothing like any other 3D package I've had my hands on.
Anyway, I thought I'd check in to look around and see what's new as I do know the software is getting better and better with new features all the time like any other software and hopefully they will do something about that UI of theirs someday.
Looking around on the webpage, I looked through the gallery of movies which are made using the software and I come over a movie called Sintel.
I know it's not a new movie but I have just never sat down to actually watch it before and I was stunned by what I saw.
I've seen other movies made with Blender before and no one seemed to impress me on all points. Sure, Big Buck Bunny was eye candy all over on the visuals but I think it had a poor story and the animation could have been so much better. What really bugged me with the whole movie was the characters goals and motivations that simply did not make any sense to me.
Anyway, after watching Sintel, I was impressed by how beautiful the movie looked like visually as well as the story being quite solid to my taste and what impressed me most of all was the quality of the animation. For a completely independent movie project made with only free software I was impressed and this is definitely a movie worth seeing if you haven't seen it yet:
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