Sintel

To imagine that all of this was created from scratch is remarkable.

The score was very well done as was the foley.

Halina really came through and I was so impressed, I had to find out who she was. Amazing to shine as an actor through a 3D animation. She did it!

For the filmmakers and artist to take this on and to get it done for future artist is admirable. It gives hope to other artist and filmmakers.

I would not recommend the film to children but maybe the filmmakers will do another film just for them. I hope they do.

The director's attention to detail was also noted.

Great job!

This film was beautiful in almost every way. The animation, the music, and the story was well. This short film shows how powerful the Blender application is with hard work and determination. With more work, more workers, and more money, this could have been a feature-length production. I was pretty surprised that the actual making of the film (modeling, lighting, and animating) was done by not that large of a crew. That is because it isn't feature length, but th quality is on par with that of animations by Disney and pixar. This film should have won an Oscar for best animated short. I hope the Blender foundation continues to work on amazing films like these.

Third short film by the Amsterdam-based Blender Foundation. Sintel is partly meant to promote the open source animation software Blender and to be used for demo-purposes (3d, 4k)by it's sponsors.

But it's far more than a very crafty demo. Script and storyline are clearly worked out on a elaborate scale, comprising three different levels. One might see it as a fantasy-action movie, but it also packs a coming-of-age sideline and a sobering life-lesson.

Loner Sintel (Dutch for Cinder)befriends a baby dragon an nurtures it, until it's snatched from her in a dramatic scene. The quest to find the dragon is somewhat rushed in a montage and throughout the movie some movement seems unnatural, but the amount of detail in props and background is amazing. Double so, because this was made by just 14 animators, script editor, technician and director (and numerous members of the Blender community who made props and scenes online) in just over a year, at a total cost of 400.000 euro.

Good story and great animation, I stumbled on to this and really enjoyed it.

I didn't know what I was in for here, aside from "Sintel" being an animated short film.

But as I had the opportunity to sit down and watch it, of course I did so. I had never seen it before, nor actually heard about it. So writers Esther Wouda, Martin Lodewijk and Colin Levy had every opportunity to impress and bedazzle me.

Sure, the storyline was fair enough. But running at a mere 14 minutes, of course it was limited what the writers could cram into the narrative, so it was a bit rushed. But it proved to be fair enough entertainment for a single viewing.

The CGI in "Sintel" haven't aged well. It looked like something that was spawned in the early 2000s, not 2010. And the CGI rendering sort of took away from the overall enjoyment of this 2010 animated movie from director Colin Levy.

It is not something that I will return to watch a second time.

How did this 2010 animated movie land a 7.4 rating? That is simply beyond my comprehension.

My rating of "Sintel" lands on a five out of ten stars.