A polish Winter - new image

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A Polish Winter - colour grading in Blender 3D

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Just a simple demonstration of the importance of colour grading images used in film production.
The image on the left is with grading while the image on the right is the unaltered original image.

Weblinks to Nazi extermination and labour camps

Our film “A Polish Winter” tries to acknowledge the murder of children during this time in history but below are some links to important websites dedicated to remembering and documenting the entire timeline of atrocities of Nazi labour and extermination camps:


http://www.deathcamps.org/

One of the most thorough and informative sites available.
Deathcamps.org focuses on the Aktion Reinhard camps set up by the Nazi authorities for the specific purpose of the extermination of human life.
The site is a mine of information and is one of the very best websites we’ve ever come across.

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/aktion-reinhard/

Important website about the Holocaust. Links to many other websites.


http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/aktion-reinhard/

Danish website (in English) covering all aspects of the Holocaust.


http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/

The website of the Auschwitz television documentary series.





There are many more but we’ve decided to just list a select few for now.
If you’d like to add other suggestions, please leave a comment on this site.


Please visit these sites.
Don’t restrict your knowledge of the Holocaust to just having watched ‘Shindler’s List’ on TV or simply being aware of the name ‘Auschwitz’.
Don’t let the horror of Treblinka, Sorbibor, Belzec, Majdanek, Chelmno and far less well know camps such as Janowska and Jasenovac be forgotten.

A Polish Winter - first posting

This is the first posting on this blog about the making of the short 3D animated film "A Polish Winter".



About the film:
A Polish Winter is a short film about the murder of children in Nazi extermination camps in Poland during World War II.
The movie is more poetic rather than graphic as we aim to meld visuals and sounds to convey the sense of hopelessness and loss forced upon hundreds of thousands of children during the massacres of both Jewish and non-Jewish children during the most evil moment in world history.



The filmmakers:
Co-directors Shane Sheils and Paula Sheils are behind such films as The Darkside, To Shoot a Rurf, Opera B, Night Falls and more recently Mr. Humpfninkel's Sales Technique.
Shane handles animation and 3D modeling work, while they both share editing, writing, sound design, music composing duties.

Software Used on film:
Open Source and freeware software form the basis of the production pipeline on almost every Dwarfed Films picture.
For modeling,animation and compositing Blender 3D is the programme of choice.



Keep updated with the making of A Polish Winter by visiting this blog or else Dwarfed Films homepage