The baby runs away upon seeing Sintel, and the adult dragon attacks. She finds the tree pictured on the spear, and near it a cave with an adult dragon and his baby. Sintel is ready to give up when the shaman tells her that they are in dragon lands, showing her the glyph on her attacker's spear as proof. Determined to get him back, she began the long and dangerous journey that led her to the shaman's hut.

One day, while Scales was flying, he was captured by an adult dragon. She nursed him back to health and named him Scales, and the two quickly formed an emotional bond. Sintel was a homeless loner, looking for food when she discovered an injured baby dragon. He asks her why she is traveling, and she confesses that she is looking for a dragon, leading into a flashback. After defeating her attacker and taking his spear, she finds refuge in a shaman's hut.

The main character, Sintel, is attacked while traveling through a wintry mountainside. By May 2020, it was viewed 5.2 million times on YouTube. The film was viewed over 1,000,000 times in a matter of weeks. The online release was made available for download on 30 September 2010. The film was officially released on 27 September 2010 at the Netherlands Film Festival. The name comes from the Dutch word sintel, which can mean ' cinder', or ' ember'. Just like the other Blender 'open movies,' the film was made using Blender, a free and open source software application for animation, created and supported by the Blender Foundation.

The plot follows the character, Sintel, who is tracking down her pet Scales, a dragon. It was made at the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. It was produced by Ton Roosendaal, chairman of the Blender Foundation, written by Esther Wouda, directed by Colin Levy, at the time an artist at Pixar and art direction by David Revoy, who is known for Pepper&Carrot an open source webcomic series. Sintel, code-named Project Durian during production, is a 2010 computer-animated fantasy short film.

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