Sintel
Sintel is an epic tale about a solitary young girl who finds an unlikely companion in the streets of her inhospitable hometown Ishtar. When the friends are ruthlessly torn apart, she embarks on a desperate journey during which she has to face not only deadly perils, but also come to terms with her real vulnerabilities.
The CG short film is the third “open movie” produced by Ton Roosendaal‘s Amsterdam-based media production venture, the Blender Institute. Directed by Colin Levy, it premiered on September 27th, 2010 at Netherlands Film Festival. A few days later it was released for free online and quickly gathered a lot of public attention. To this date, more than a million people have watched it on YouTube (named a “must-see in HD” and featured on the front page by the YouTube staff); it has been featured prominently on sites such as Slashdot, Cartoon Brew, and Reddit.
Download Sintel in a variety of formats (up to cinema-scale 2k resolution with 5.1 sound)
Just like with its spiritual predecessors Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny, I’ve written and produced the musical score for the film and was responsible of the sound design, foley and 5.1 mixing. For the ending and credits roll of the movie, I wrote a song based on the movie’s main theme, which was performed by jazz/pop singer Helena Fix. At the International Film Music Festival 2011 in Úbeda, Spain, my score for Sintel has won two Jerry Goldsmith Awards in the categories of Best Score for an Animated Short Film and Best Song.
If you want to support the project, please consider pre-ordering the 4-DVD set! It contains not only the movie itself (PAL, NTSC, HD formats up to 2k), but also a making-of feature, lots of commentary tracks from the creators, extensive 3d design tutorials, and not at least all production data that was used to render the film!
