The Sentry is a still image I started working on before I joined the Sintel team. So all in all it took me more than 6 months to find the time to finish it. I’m glad I did!

It was technically challenging because it has nearly 3500 telescopes in it, and over 1000 birds in the background.

The file this render is made with is attached to this post… be carefull though, the full size render is 7400px wide and took over 10G of memory to composit.

You can download the file used to create this image from blendswap.com