Retrieving Blender open movies rendered images

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Hello,

I know that the Blender foundation is giving free access to the source files of its open movie projects: https://studio.blender.org/films/.

I also know accessing some of those files requires you to subscribe to the foundation.

However after browsing the file and having a look at some of the free one I cannot seem to find any of the rendered images, only blender sources files.

Could anyone confirm that the Blender foundation is not publishing any of the renders even some sample ?

For context I am looking for computer-generated-image for RnD purposes and I would have like to avoid needing to render blend file myself assuming a lot of issue could happen leading to a result different from the actual movie result.

Cheers.
Liam.

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Yeah. I just did a quick search and also noticed that there are no exr files, they mention that it is due to their size, although a sample would have been nice.

Well, from what I saw sometimes when there are colormanagement tests or image tests in the development forum or here they use some exr that have assets from the short films. There is one that is from Einar

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here is the file

there is also the scene of ellie(sprite fright) on stage

I also looked to see if there were exr shots of any of the shorts, the only thing I found for now is on the Netflix page. When blender sent cosmos laundromat to this platform, it seems that Netflix made exrs from the already edited files that it remastered to upload to stream, and published them on its page

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since it is an exr based on a display input (an inverse transformation) transformed to linear (I think) it looks strange and I have not yet found a way to display it correctly, perhaps you will have better luck.

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By the way, what are some of the RND uses that you could possibly give to the footage? I’m asking in case I find something that works for you too.

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Thanks for your answer.
Yeah if they sometime use EXR for development purposes it would be great to have an official collection of samples extracted from the various short-movies.

I am looking to build a library of “scene-refered/open-domain” imagery data. I already got a bunch of very good “extreme CG values” cases and I’m looking for more day-to-day case in the context of animated-movie production, which the blender open-movie project match perfectly.

I will have a look at the Netflix Cosmo Laundromats file but yeah if they already have the image-rendering transform baked in I might not use them.

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In the past Blender has collaborated with Xiph.org to store video files and still frames of their productions.

https://media.xiph.org/

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Ha I indeed remembered a site where they hosted the exr frames for Tears Of Steel, thanks for sharing it !
We also got Cosmos Laundromat but look like to be in the same state as described by Joel.

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Regards the EXR format, if they are rendered for a linear pipeline, they retain the linear color space. They are not intended to be displayed directly but used in an editing or comp app that is working in linear space, which will then display the final image output as srgb.

You can configure da Vinci resolve (free) to do this for you. Photoshop will do it by default I believe and you might even be able to do it in gimp.

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Hello,
Yes, The Blender Foundation provides access to the source files of its open movie projects, but they mainly include the Blender source files rather than the rendered images.