Sintel
Sintel codenamed Durian is a short computer animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. Like the foundations previous films Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny, the film was made using Blender, a free software application for animation created and supported by the same foundation. Sintel was produced by Ton Roosendaal, chairman of the Foundation, and directed by Colin Levy, an artist at Pixar Animation Studios.
Work began in May2009. The film was officially released on September 27, 2010, at the Netherlands Film Festival. The online release was made available for download on September 30, 2010. The film was viewed over 1,000,000 times in a matter of weeks.A woman, Sintel, is attacked while traveling through a wintery mountainside. After defeating her attacker and taking his spear, she finds refuge in a shamans hut. He asks her why shes travelling, and she confesses shes looking for a dragon, leading into a flashback. Sintel was a homeless loner, looking for food when she discovered an injured baby dragon. She nursed him back to health and named him Scales, the two quickly formed an emotional bond. One day while Scales was flying he was captured by an adult dragon. Determined to get him back, Sintel began the long and dangerous journey that led her to the shamans hut. ........
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