Making Of,Production

Cosmos Laundromat – First Cycle

10 August, 2015 |  154  

(Rating: 13y or older) We’re very proud and happy to share the first 10 minutes of Cosmos Laundromat with you. It’s been more than a year of hard work by many people! Thanks everyone for helping to make it, and thanks to the thousands of supporters and donators for making it possible. Want to see […]

Making Of,Meet the Team,Production

DVD/BD/DC Mastering ready!

7 August, 2015 |  6  

Well that was the most epic deadline fight ever. Francesco and Sergey worked here all night to get the masters ready, quality demands (wrong gamma) required last night to make a complete new film export from the OpenEXRs and encode it all over. Looks even more great (and less dark) now! The guys left this […]

Making Of,Production

Online premiere: August 10th

31 July, 2015 |  34  

Monday morning, in Los Angeles on the SIGGRAPH convention, we will launch the Cosmos Laundromat pilot online for everyone to watch! August 10th, 2015 10 AM Los Angeles time, 19h CEST. Youtube launch for everyone! High quality encoded version in Blender Cloud for subscribers. And of course a lot of tutorials, goodies, extras, making of […]

Making Of,Production

The Evolution of Tara & the Rest

29 July, 2015 |    Gallery

Now that we’ve looked at the evolution of Cosmos Laundromat’s two main characters—Victor and Franck—it’s time to turn to Tara and her jungle companions: the motofly and the villainous frog. Head here to find the illustrated tale of why and how these three characters developed and changed, and then have fun digging through the gallery […]

Production

Credit Scroll

28 July, 2015 |  7  

Version 3.2, 28 July 2015 This is the list of people who get a credit because they supported us financially with 95 euro (dollar) or more. The awesome sponsors! Please review this list carefully. If you’re not on the list, just contact us via email: institute at blender.org Some notes: Cloud subscribers can check their […]

Blender Tools,Production

Order your Blu-Ray, Data Card or DVD box!

26 July, 2015 |  14  

Ordering started, products will be shipped in 2nd half August. The 64 GB dual layer blu-ray disc will work for your (video) bluray player to watch on TV as well as in your computer as data disc. It has a regular video menu to play the film itself and several extras. Used in a computer […]

Production

Cosmos Laundromat selected for Netherlands Film Festival

22 July, 2015 |  7  

The most prestigious of the Dutch Festivals has selected Cosmos Laundromat! It’s not an animation festival (no animation award category even),  being selected for NFF is always an honour for being recognized as serious film maker in general. Previously we only had Sintel selected in the festival. That was a huge success and a great […]

Production

Hello and good luck from Colin Levy & Pixar

8 July, 2015 |  10  

Perfectly arrived on the right moment. From the people who know what “final stretch” means! Thanks for the heads up Colin, such a pleasant surprise and so encouraging to know that you guys keep an eye on us! -Ton-

Meet the Team,Production

(Pre-)Premiere: 30 July, EyeFilm

7 July, 2015 |  3  

It is officially confirmed now! We have a pre-premiere in the spectacular EyeFilm cinema in Amsterdam. The theater we rented is the smallest one, only 70 people will fit in… but we will do two screenings! The stats: Thursday July 30 EyeFilm, Amsterdam Screening at 17.30h and 18:10h in Cinema 4 Want to join? We […]

Meet the Team,Production

Heatwave! Last month production update

2 July, 2015 |  6  

The creative work is over, we now work on feeding the render farm and wrap up the project by writing docs, recording tutorials and other presentations. There are also DVDs/Blurays to be mastered, including all of the extras we want to do! Hjalti (photo) planned his video voice over recording on the hottest day of […]