Tears of Steel - Blender Foundation's fourth short Open Movie

"Tears of Steel" was realized with crowd-funding by users of the open source 3D creation tool Blender. Target was to improve and test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film - and to make a compelling sci-fi film in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The film itself, and all raw material used for making it, have been released under the Creatieve Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Visit the tearsofsteel.org website to find out more about this, or to purchase the 4-DVD box with a lot of extras.

(CC) Blender Foundation - http://www.tearsofsteel.org

Duration: 12 minutes. Available also in HD and DCP 2.35:1, Dolby 5.1.

Age: Suitable for 12 years and older.
Language: English spoken
Production: Blender Institute

Producer: Ton Roosendaal
Director & Writer: Ian Hubert
Director of Photography: Joris Kerbosch
Composer: Joram Letwory

Starring: Derek de Lint, Sergio Hasselbaink, Rogier Schippers, Vanja Rukavina, Denise Rebergen, Jody Bhe, Chris Haley

Crew: Andreas Goralczyk, David Revoy, Francesco Siddi, Jeremy Davidson, Kjartan Tysdal, Nicolo Zubbini, Rob Tuytel, Roman Volodin, Sebastian Koenig, Brecht van Lommel, Campbell Barton, Sergey Sharybin.

Project funding: Blender Foundation,
Netherlands Film Fund, Cinegrid Amsterdam

Premium Sponsor: Google
Main Sponsors: NVIDIA, Hewlett-Packard Workstations, Camalot AV Services, BlenderGuru.

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• Category

  Film & Animation

[nameless12345]

script was horrible but i really like the vfx

[Daniel Hon]

My understanding of the story:

- They're in a world where robots have taken over (#matrix #I,robot)

- That robot girl is something like the queen bee who after she got rejected, decided to vent her anger on the whole world

- A team tries to hack into her system to change her mind by changing her memory

If I'm right, I agree it wasn't set up well, bu it's a pretty ingenious (albeit a little soppy) way to save the world (love always prevails!), just hard to follow.

[monkeyz131]

the guys with the broken glasses is a fucking horrible actor loll but the animation and fx were awesome

[TheDjezzus]

i dont get the story

[thenthapple]

what? Great animation. But what?

[LeDreamTeamComms]

not even close to a tenth as good as Sintel

[killereddy]

I wonder how long this took to render

[IronFistofJudgement]

Didn't get it, but nice animation!

Did you use placeholder models for the humans or green screen for the background and Special FX?

[Redfrog1011]

Can Someone please explain the plot for me?

[Casey Morton]

this was awesome! I liked the ending especially :D

[zurechtweiser]

I did not like the plot.