Sintel is out!

Background

Sintel is the latest Blender Foundation movie. Previous movies were Elephant’s Dream and Big Buck Bunny. Every couple of years the Blender Foundation puts out a movie made with Blender, a free software renderer and sequencer program. The Blender Foundation improves Blender as they go and we all get a better Blender program after their efforts (it should be noted that theirs are not the only Blender improvements).

The Blender Foundation raises money for these movies (which function as both entertainment and technical demo for Blender) in part by asking people to buy a copy of the movie on home video well ahead of time. They accept donations all the time, you can still buy a copy of the 4-DVD Sintel set.

The Blender Foundation movies are unlike other independent movies in that these movies are licensed to share (even commercially), and distributed with all the parts that went into making the movie so you can make derivative works. I know of no major Hollywood studio that encourages you to work with the movie in this way, which is partly why I find it so hard to spend time or money on Hollywood movies; free culture movies set the bar so high Hollywood simply doesn’t compete.

You should demand better for your freedom’s sake and demand more for your money by helping free culture artists do their work.

Download

Local Archive

• Poster

  • Full-size JPEG

• Ogg Format (stereo Vorbis audio / Theora video / subtitles in multiple languages):

  • 1024p (285MB)
  • 1280p (381MB)
  • 1280p (828MB)

• DVDs:

  • Disc 1 of 4: NTSC video
  • Disc 2 of 4: PAL video
  • Disc 3 of 4: Film in HD, Tutorials, Documentary, and more
  • Disc 4 of 4: All the data you need to re-render the movie
  • SHA1SUMs for each of the above DVD ISOs

• Miscellaneous:

  • 2K video frame tarball
  • Stereo FLAC movie audio track
  • FLAC soundtrack files

Sintel is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.