Tears of Steel is a short film made in Amsterdam the Netherlands by the Blender Institute, well known for realizing the open source short animation s Big Buck Bunny (2008) and Sintel (new). As usual these films get financing by crowd-funding in online communities of 3D artists and animators. \r<br>\r<br>For Tears of Steel the funding target was to explore a complete open source pipeline for producing a high quality visual effect film, with as theme Science Fiction in Amsterdam.\r<br>\r<br>Producer Ton Roosendaal invited young Seattle talent Ian Hubert to come working in Amsterdam for 7 months to write and direct the film -- assisted in Blender Institutes studio by an international team of 3d and vfx artists, and with a Dutch film crew and Dutch ors.\r<br>\r<br>The films premise is about a group of warriors and scientists, who gathered at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam to stage a crucial event from the past, in a desperate attempt to rescue the world from destructive robots.\r<br>\r<br>The film itself -- as well as original footage and all the studio files -- will be released as free and open content; the Creative Commons Attribution license.\r<br>\r<br>CC) Blender Foundation - \r<br>\r<br>Duration: 12 minutes. Available also in HD and DCP 2.35:1, Dolby 5.1.\r<br>\r<br>Age: Suitable for 12 years and older. \r<br>Language: English spoken\r<br>Production: Blender Institute\r<br>\r<br>Producer: Ton Roosendaal\r<br>Director & Writer: Ian Hubert\r<br>Director of Photography: Joris Kerbosch\r<br>Composer: Joram Letwory\r<br>\r<br>Starring: Derek de Lint, Sergio Hasselbaink, Rogier Schippers, Vanja Rukavina, Denise Rebergen, Jody Bhe, Chris Haley\r<br>\r<br>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.\r<br>\r<br>Project funding: Blender Foundation, \r<br>Netherlands Film Fund, Cinegrid Amsterdam\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>Premium Sponsor: Google\r<br>Main Sponsors: NVIDIA, Hewlett-Packard Workstations, Camalot AV Services, BlenderGuru.
