Project Durian is Blender Foundations third Open Movie project, produced in the studio of the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Six artists and two developers have been invited to come over to Amsterdam for at least six months to create an epic action-based 3D short movie with Blender. Lead by renowned Blender artists Colin Levy (direction) and David Revoy (art direction) and with a script by famous Dutch cartoonist Martin Lodewijk, you can expect this to be an exciting project!

Just like project Orange, and Peach and Apricot, the end result itself and all of the production files will be published under the Creative Commons, free to be reused and for everyone to learn from. More importantly, the team will challenge Blender itself to the max, inspire the entire development community to prove Blender is ready for feature quality 3D production. Special attention will be spent on massive animation scenes, better library data management, smoke/fire/explosion simulations, new rendering techniques, and faster high-res compositing

You can help us to realize this project by purchasing the DVD edition of Durian in advance.

In the quadruple disk DVD box you will find:
- The movie (approx 6-8 min) in best DVD quality widescreen format (disks in both NTSC and PAL)
- The HD version of the movie (.avi and/or .mov)
- A special disk with a lot of video tutorials by the artists and developers
- All .blend files, models, textures, and so on... the material used to create the movie.
- The original script, breakdown, storyboards
- Documentation and other tutorials by the team members about all technical aspects the movie; like how to re-use assets, animate characters, or add new shots.
- And of course all the extras we can not predict yet, like commentary tracks, a making-of documentary, outtakes, and so on.

Visit the durian.blender.org blog for more information about this project.

Get your DVD credit!

If you purchase and pay the DVD before the film premiere in 2010, you can get your name mentioned on the Durian website and on a special DVD Thank You section! People who bought the DVD before September 15 2009 also will get an official film scroll credit.
To make sure the crediting works fine, we will remind everyone via email a month before the movie goes to premiere.