Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender
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It's a simpler animation style so don't expect Pixar level stuff
One of the things you learn in art school is that if you aim for something like realism (or Pixar, in this case), but you fail to get there, people will notice and critique you for it. If you aim for a style you can do well, on the other hand, nobody will care that you didn't do Realism (or Pixar).
Up and coming artists in any genre would do well to remember that it's okay not to be Pixar or Capcom or whatever. Sometimes working within your limitations can inspire truly creative works.
Exactly. When I play indie games, I go for simpler art style because it feels so much more cohesive.
That really bugs me in newer Pokémon games, the Pokémon don't seem to fit well into the world. I'd much rather have old school Pokémon than inconsistent art direction.
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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.
It's not sad, but there's a lot of anxiety inducing moments.
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But the thumbnail, isn't that just the album cover from Nirvana's Nevermind?
If you remove the fishes, replece the cat with a baby, and add a dollar on a fishing hook, it's literally the same.
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Rendered in EEVEE? Really? Wow! Considering you get so much more optical fidelity with Cycles it's really astonishing they've used EEVEE.
FYI EEVEE now supports ray tracing so lighting can be much better than before with much less hassle.
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Exactly. When I play indie games, I go for simpler art style because it feels so much more cohesive.
That really bugs me in newer Pokémon games, the Pokémon don't seem to fit well into the world. I'd much rather have old school Pokémon than inconsistent art direction.
I love gen 1 sprite work.
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I liked the movie, but my (small) kids cried a lot during and after the movie.
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I’m planning to watch this one, got told it’s quite good.
It's so fun and endearing! Really heartwarming.
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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.
Its 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.
The 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!
Recognition 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.
First 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.
That's more than I can afford to be donating right now
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With a huge drippin hog
Psshht, mine's bigger.
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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.
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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.
If 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
That’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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Yeah. The headline is an editorialisation by OP, not the original headline.
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That cat was just amazing! Great flic.
Agreed!!
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If my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike
Balls, said the Queen, if I had two I'd be a king!
