Sintel

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

maybe, it is more than a masterpiece. for refined construction of levels of story. for the hard work of a great team. for message. and for memories. for the end. and for the deep poetry of story. a story of love. not ordinary. full of dramatic situations. and convincing. like a parable. or, just like a trip across memories. a film remembering , for me, the Petre Ispirescu fairy tale "Youth everlasting and life without end ". sure, not same end. but the same essence.

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.

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.

This still is the best blender animation studio open movie I've ever seen so far. I was hooked onto it right from the moment Sintel found the baby dragon, took care of it, till the tragic end. Even with blender's basic computer graphics, the story's still emotional enough to grasp anyone's attention.