Sintel - Open Movie by Blender Foundation
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as an example of what open-source tools can produce and as freely licensed footage for demoing multimedia software.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2011 to 2020.
What it is
Sintel is a 15-minute animated fantasy short made by the Blender Foundation to develop and showcase Blender, funded by community donations and released under Creative Commons.
What people said
Cites templaedhel · 2011-12 · Hacker News · on “New Blender 3D with Motion Tracking, new rendering engine, dynamic paint”
Before I got into web development I was involved in several open source blender projects, usually as a modeler (someone who creates the 3d objects, then passes them on to people who color animate and process them). I have used both maya3d (the oracle of the 3d modeling, powerful, industry grade software with a cost prohibiting casual experimentation) and blender, in addition to several other programs in limited amount. Blender is everything that is right about the open source community. The feature list is very comparable to commercial applications (which usually run > $500) [LINK] The community(s) are great, super helpful, nice, and diverse. [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] (and many more, in other lan
Cites melling · 2017-01 · Hacker News · on “Top Blender developers of 2016”
it's a 20-year-old piece of software. [LINK] People have been making cool movies with it for years: [this video] There's no need to exclaim about finding out that you didn't know about a popular piece of software: [LINK]
Cites Kim_Bruning · 2020-10 · Hacker News · on “YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA”
Lesson learned: always use Creative Commons licensed data to demo your multimedia tools. Else people get the wrong idea. Some examples for youtube-dl might be: * [LINK] Big buck bunny * [this video] Sintel * [LINK] Spring In fact, youtube actually allows you to filter by CC, so there's never a reason not to!