Spring
About Spring
A shepherd girl named Spring and her dog drop from above the clouds into a frozen forest. Ancient spirits bar the change of season. The girl and the dog face them so the cycle of the year can go on. There is no dialogue.
Cast & crew
More about Spring
Andreas Goralczyk wrote and directed Blender Institute's twelfth open movie, produced by Francesco Siddi with Ton Roosendaal as executive producer, and the Blender Foundation released it on 4 April 2019. The crew started in Blender 2.79 and moved to the 2.80 beta. Goralczyk has tied the mountains to his childhood in Germany.
Themes
Technique
The short was animated in development builds of Blender 2.80, before that version left beta, with models made in Blender, GIMP, and Krita.
Music
Torin Borrowdale wrote the score. There is no spoken dialogue.
Preservation
The picture and its production files were released under a Creative Commons license.
Notes
- Torin Borrowdale wrote the music. Sander Houtman did the sound. Hjalti Hjalmarsson was animation director.
- The Blender press note gives the picture as 7 minutes 44 seconds, with 5.1 sound.
- Character and asset files were released under CC BY 4.0 on Blender Cloud.
- Rendering was done at IT4Innovations, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava.
- The film and the studio files are under a Creative Commons license.
Scenes
- Spring and the dog leave the clouds and enter the iced trees.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Spring - Blender Open Movie.webm)