{"id":1236280,"date":"2025-03-03T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236280"},"modified":"2025-03-03T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T05:04:00","slug":"blender-rendered-movie-flow-wins-oscar-for-best-animated-feature-beating-pixar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236280","title":{"rendered":"Blender-Rendered Movie ‘Flow’ Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s a feature-length film “rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,” reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney\/Pixar and Dreamworks. <\/p>\n

In January Blender.org called Flow “the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small, independent team with a limited budget is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide, and achieve recognition with over 60 awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Animation and two Oscar nominations.” The entire project cost just $3.7 million, reports NPR \u2014 though writer\/director Gints Zilbalodis tells Blender.org that it took about five and a half years. <\/p>\n

“I think a certain level of naivety is necessary when starting a project,” Zilbalodis tells Blender. “If I had known how difficult it would be, I might never have started. But because I didn’t fully grasp the challenges ahead, I just dove in and figured things out along the way…”<\/p>\n

Zilbalodis: [A]fter making a few shorts, I realized that I’m not good at drawing, and I switched to 3D because I could model things, and move the camera… After finishing my first feature Away, I decided to switch to Blender [from Maya] in 2019, mainly because of EEVEE… It took a while to learn some of the stuff, but it was actually pretty straightforward. Many of the animators in Flow took less than a week to switch to Blender… <\/p>\n

I’ve never worked in a big studio, so I don’t really know exactly how they operate. But I think that if you’re working on a smaller indie-scale project, you shouldn’t try to copy what big studios do. Instead, you should develop a workflow that best suits you and your smaller team.
\nYou can get a glimpse of their animation style in Flow’s official trailer. <\/p>\n

NPR says that ultimately Flow’s images “possess a kinetic elegance. They have the alluring immersiveness of a video game…”<\/p>\n

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