Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender
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Wanna watch it with my 6 and 9 year olds soon. Is it that sad?! I skipped through it and it looked nice.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 16:34 last edited byIts not that its sad so much as there is a lot of stress and peril and the ending isn't really happy or sad. Its a complicated movie that falls outside the disney format of "bad thing happens, good guys badn together, day is saved and everyone is fine".
It feels like its exploring themes of loss and moving forward. But theres some moments where I genuinely have no idea what happened.
I kinda like exposing my kids to that though. The movie didnt spoon feed you answers and encourages you to draw your own conclusions.
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FYI EEVEE now supports ray tracing so lighting can be much better than before with much less hassle.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 16:38 last edited byThe fact that all the textures look painted explain why eevee was used. There are frames in this movie that look like literal oil paintings.
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Awesome to see Blender getting the love it deserves!
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 16:45 last edited byRecognition but not love. They will have no money.
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Hahaha yeah same, was not expecting it to get on top of them so easily.
I feel like young kids these days are desensitized to scary imagery (ghosts and ghouls and blood and guts) but take jeopardy or peril really hard.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:01 last edited byFirst time my 3 year old saw The Lego Movie he got very upset at the part where they were falling at the end of the Wild West scene
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Whenever I download a new version of Blender I typically throw them $10 - $15.
Just like with other open source software I use, I give it a shot and if I like it I'll throw them $10 - $15 each time I update.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:02 last edited byThat's more than I can afford to be donating right now
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With a huge drippin hog
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:04 last edited byPsshht, mine's bigger.
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wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:09 last edited by
I wouldn't be surprised. I like this one where the guy reproduces an entire functional/usable physical camera within Blender.
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It was a strong year for Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations, and an underdog triumphed. At the 97th annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles last night, Flow beat competition from Pixar's Inside Out 2, DreamWorks' The Wild Robot and Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
Gints Zilbalodis tale about a cat in a flooded world missed out on the Oscar for Best International Feature Film but still became Latvia's first Oscar win. And it was surely also the first Oscar winner to be made entirely in the free 3D modelling software Blender, cementing the open-source program's place among the best animation software.
Flow was one of our highlights of Annecy 2024, and it still seems incredible that it was made by a small team using Blender alone. It was rendered in EEVEE, Blender's realtime render engine.
Gints thanked Blender when accepting the award. Speaking to press afterwards, he said: "Any kid now has tools that are used to make now Academy Award-winning films, so I think we're going to see all kinds of exciting films being made from kids who might not have had a chance to do this before.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:19 last edited byFamily liked it, especially the kids, but the ending was like, wait what? It’s over?
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If you remove the fishes, replece the cat with a baby, and add a dollar on a fishing hook, it's literally the same.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:19 last edited byIf my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike
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For each update? I'd be the one with funding issues if I'd do that
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:25 last edited byThat’s why they do it. A lot of people can’t afford to donate to software, so for those who can, it’s nice to make a sizeable contribution.
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wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:28 last edited by
Yeah. The headline is an editorialisation by OP, not the original headline.
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That cat was just amazing! Great flic.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:37 last edited byAgreed!!
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If my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:43 last edited byBalls, said the Queen, if I had two I'd be a king!
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It was a strong year for Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations, and an underdog triumphed. At the 97th annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles last night, Flow beat competition from Pixar's Inside Out 2, DreamWorks' The Wild Robot and Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
Gints Zilbalodis tale about a cat in a flooded world missed out on the Oscar for Best International Feature Film but still became Latvia's first Oscar win. And it was surely also the first Oscar winner to be made entirely in the free 3D modelling software Blender, cementing the open-source program's place among the best animation software.
Flow was one of our highlights of Annecy 2024, and it still seems incredible that it was made by a small team using Blender alone. It was rendered in EEVEE, Blender's realtime render engine.
Gints thanked Blender when accepting the award. Speaking to press afterwards, he said: "Any kid now has tools that are used to make now Academy Award-winning films, so I think we're going to see all kinds of exciting films being made from kids who might not have had a chance to do this before.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 17:56 last edited byNice! Have it on my watchlist hopefully I can see it soon :3
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wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 18:08 last edited by
I realized part way through the title works on a few levels. It was refreshing to realize this wasn't remotely following the 3-act narrative structure and I had no idea what was happening next.
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It was a strong year for Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations, and an underdog triumphed. At the 97th annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles last night, Flow beat competition from Pixar's Inside Out 2, DreamWorks' The Wild Robot and Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
Gints Zilbalodis tale about a cat in a flooded world missed out on the Oscar for Best International Feature Film but still became Latvia's first Oscar win. And it was surely also the first Oscar winner to be made entirely in the free 3D modelling software Blender, cementing the open-source program's place among the best animation software.
Flow was one of our highlights of Annecy 2024, and it still seems incredible that it was made by a small team using Blender alone. It was rendered in EEVEE, Blender's realtime render engine.
Gints thanked Blender when accepting the award. Speaking to press afterwards, he said: "Any kid now has tools that are used to make now Academy Award-winning films, so I think we're going to see all kinds of exciting films being made from kids who might not have had a chance to do this before.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 18:28 last edited byAny good places where one could stream this?
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wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 18:35 last edited by
The poor whale x.x. I throught for sure the cat was going to climb the mountain and see the elk herd circling like in their dream.
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Any good places where one could stream this?
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 18:39 last edited byHBO Max. Or else you can rent it from digital sites
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The movie was really well done. It's a simpler animation style so don't expect Pixar level stuff, but the story and art direction are great.
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 20:42 last edited byI thought it was a game when I first saw the trailer and was mildly disappointed to find out it's a movie
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For each update? I'd be the one with funding issues if I'd do that
wrote on 6 Mar 2025, 22:43 last edited byEach time I update
So in general that's each time there's a new LTS version I want to update to. I don't so the nightlies or daily branches for most of my software and the ones that I do I basically throw some cash like each quarter or so depending on how much I use their software.
Blender for example I think put about $100 towards it last year, that was only the second year I was able to support them and the first year (4 years ago) I only put $15 towards them. And Blender got the most I put towards a project last year.
This year I've already put $30 towards Godot though. It's ahead of Blender right now in 2025.
I try to do what I can, sometimes I can't contribute and sometimes I can. I like to help where and when I can.
Unfortunately I may have to hold off for a few months as I just got a suprise bill for $1800 so it may be October (hopefully) when I can throw some cash their way again.
I also contribute to some content creators I enjoy, though not as many as I'd like.