Tears of Steel is a liveactionCGI short film by producer Ton Roosendaal and directorwriter Ian Hubert. The film was made using new enhancements to the visual effects capabilities of Blender, a free and open source allinone 3D computer graphics software package.
Following Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, Yo Frankie and Sintel, the short movie is the fifth project from the Blender Foundation. Tears of Steel was created by the Blender Institute, a division of the foundation set up specifically to facilitate the creation of open content films and games.The film was funded by the Blender Foundation, donations from the Blender community, presales of the films DVD, the Netherlands Film Fund and Cinegrid Amsterdam. The film itself and any material made in the studio are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License. ........
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