The DVD arrival wave…
Posted in Blender Institute, Production by TonWe have shipped everything to Europe and rest of world last tuesday, May 20th. Some close Europe countries might arrive already this week friday or saturday. Dutch orders are being shipped today, and arrive friday. (Well, there’s rumours the Dutch Mail will strike…)
So, we hope almost everyone can their own home-cinema premiere during the next 10 days. In the mean time we’ll build a large network of http mirrors, torrents, and streams to make sure we can do the public movie launch on May 30 or 31st. Keep tuned!
In anticipation of the DVDs, we’ve upgraded the gallery with a couple of final frames from the movie. Also check the press section for a great story about BBB in today’s Netherlands largest quality news paper.
Finally: please mark in the Frappr map below when you get the DVD. Makes it a review of our shipping company as well. :)
http://www.frappr.com/?a=constellation_map&mapid=137440549214
May 28th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Can anybody confirm how many tutorials are supposed to on the disc? I have only two tutorials in that directory, how to use the files and Nathan’s rigging intro. Just seems a bit light, I was expecting a lot more tutorials.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:14 am
I’ve looked at this a bit deeper. The tutorial directory contains “getting_started_h264.mov” and “rig_tut.ogg” and a directory “fur” with sub-dir “imag” with a few rendered thumbnails. That can’t be right surely? Something is missing.
Do I have a duff DVD pressing or is that as expected? Not a major issue but annoying none the less. I remember reading somewhere that somebody elses disc had missing files and directories but I can’t find it now.
If the Blender Foundation paid commercial rates for the DVD duplication
and some discs are faulty then the Foundation should be asking for some sort of refund or discount on their invoice.
Thankfully the film is on my DVD and it is truly amazing.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Finally got it!
May 29th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Yes I would have loved more video tutorials. Unfortunately the 2-3 weeks the artists here could work on the DVD were spent on other things too. Not to mention everyone was exhausted…
All in all, I still think the general presentation of the dvd rom side, the docs and accessiblity of all is a big improvement compared to ED!
May 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I receive the DVD last night. All I can say is WOW!!! Incredible work guys!!! Can’t wait to check the models and other items out.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Nothing received yet. Are you sure you have shiped everything to Europe?
May 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
The DVD arrived here in Hambuehren, Lower Saxony, Germany on Tuesday, 27th. Great work guys!!! Very funny movie!!
May 29th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Well, Ton , I’m sure that I saw the the botton(The one you can choose to put your name on credits) on web site when I was ordering Both DVD’s. I’m not sure but the I think Apricot was not started on that time.
Anyway,It isn’t important at all.
Thank you very much
May 29th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I’m sorry to break the fun, It already leaked 2-3 days ago:
http://mirror.botux.net/pub/peach.blender/
May 29th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Cant wait. I didn’t order a dvd, because I’m poor :), but I wish I had. Good job everyone. Looks like its going to be great
May 30th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Please hit me, i´m blind :D My name is there, sorry! I think i was to hyped to notice its sorted by first name, not last name ;)
June 5th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Got my DVD on June 2, 2008 in Fenton MI, USA. I think that the team did a great job. My only criticism is that the audio levels in the commentaries could have been normalized a little better. But honestly I think it’s great. Watching the tutorials now!!
June 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Mmmm.. I’m from Italy, no dvd arrived yet.. :-( Have I to be patient or some problem did occur ?
June 10th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Still waiting for mine in Canberra, Australia
June 12th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Arrived yesterday (11 june 2008) !! :o) Great Job !! :o)