For the entire creation pipeline in the studio, we will only use free/open source software. For 3D graphics, compositing and video editing we’ll obviously use Blender. The new ‘Cycles’ render engine will be used, which includes open source projects like OpenShading, OpenColor and OpenImage. For camera and motion tracking Blender uses Libmv. For imaging and drawing we expect to use GIMP, MyPaint, Krita and Inkscape a lot. Render output and footage will be using the OpenEXR format. Scripting will be done in Python. Studio database storage will most likely be in SVN. The workstations in the studio will be equipped with 64 bits Ubuntu Linux. We have our own render farm this time, running on Debian and Ubuntu.

Time is flying like crazy, and we only have 3 more weeks to go until pre-premiere.
So we do a little bit of time-travel and go back 1 week in time when we have a whopping 4 weeks left until premiere and do some interviews and random stuff to give you some impressions from the studio.

Ser riktigt lovande ut

The online release will be on this website, around 17h UTC, this Wednesday 26 September.

Update: the first .webm version (full open source encoded images.sound) is available. Much better quality than the .mkv files!

All of the rendered frames in 4k, as 16 bits TIFF files, are now available here:

https://media.xiph.org/tearsofsteel/

You can also find the HD scaled down png files there for encoding fun!