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Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender (www.creativebloq.com)

submitted 3 days ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i really wanna watch this in the cinema

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It is available to stream on Max, which means that if you do not have the means to legally stream it there, you'll be able to find it on the high seas. That said, if you do opt to watch it through "alternative means", make sure to at least send a little money Blender's way.

https://fund.blender.org/

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm excited to check this out. My tastes rarely align with those of the Academy, but this looks like it could be a really beautiful film and these kind of efforts deserve support.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's a very simple film without much depth to be honest. Memoir of a snail was far better.

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[–] wipe3257@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Nice! Have it on my watchlist hopefully I can see it soon :3

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Excellent!

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Me and my mother watched it a few weeks ago knowing nothing about it and it was really good!

[–] ericrogergarcia@ludosphere.fr 0 points 2 days ago

@ForgottenFlux

I've seen it two times already and I'm going to see it a third time this WE !

run to see it !

Do you good! you need it !

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

It's so much better than The Wild Robot!

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