This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Reminder that Blender is struggling with funding right now. https://topicroomsvfx.com/news/the-price-of-free-blenders-funding-crisis/
Make sure to leave it a few bucks if you use it. https://fund.blender.org/
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.
Edit: It's not much but it's not nothing. No raindrop feels reasonable for the flood and all that.
thank you for your support to FOSS!
You do a lot, and thank you!
I also hope the studios behind the film made sure to pay a solid donation.
Nuh uh, headline. I bet the soundtrack wasn't made in Blender
You can draw sound waves with grease pencil so it should be possible
There was somebody crazy enough to make an entire game in Blender, I don't doubt that somebody has at least tried to make a soundtrack in Blender.
Blender used to have a games engine built into it. It was actually kinda fun but shit, they axed it once Unity became king.
I wonder what they used for that. Perhaps Ardour.
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.
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.
I refer to this as the Wind Waker effect.
Before Wind Waker was announced, Nintendo did a reel showing off the power of the GameCube that included a "realistic" (for the time) fight scene between Link and Ganondorf. So when they announced a new Zelda game, people were hyped for a gritty realistic Zelda, and when the first trailers appeared, people hated it.
For years after its release, Wind Waker's art style was dragged on by people, but today, it's remembered as one of the most iconic Zelda games from that time period and a major influence on the aesthetic of many Zelda games after it.
Today, its art style looks just as good as it did when the game first launched, while most other games from that time period - especially those that went for high fidelity and realistic graphics - look outdated.
A good art style is timeless and will always age better than trying to push the envelope on graphical fidelity or realism.
Don Hertzfeldt made some amazing short films with a really, really simple art style.
The message sometimes matters more than the quality of the art. There is still a level of high quality to it despite the seemingly simple art style.
I always think about Metal Gear Solid when considering true top-tier 3D art. Actually, first-party Sony games in general tend to have the best 3D art out there.
Pixar animation is computationally intensive, but artistically it has way more in common with the 3D videos for babies that show up in youtube feeds if you're not logged in.
Sure. I wasn't implying they were realistic, I was just drawing an analogy between Realism, the classical art style, and modern animation styles (like Pixar's). Whatever style or genre you aim for, do it well.
I just saw the trailer and thought it looked good.
Pixar has conditioned us to only value a certain kind of 3D animation that is very round and lanky, similar to Popeye. It's animation that exists to make things as easy as possible for the animators. Same thing with the calarts bean face. They don't care about creativity or art. They only care about making money as reliably and easily as possible.
I loved this movie!! It has zero dialogue!!
Incredible to see how far blender has come. I remember using it over ten years when I was trying to get off pirated software (3ds max), while it's still recognisable the capability has exploded
Couldn't touch it 5 years ago. Now its daily life for me.
i really wanna watch this in the cinema
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.
But they said they wanted to watch it in the cinema. Confused by this reply.
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.
Don't watch it because it won an Oscar, watch it because it is a beautiful, sweet movie about animals helping each other.
It's a very simple film without much depth to be honest. Memoir of a snail was far better.
without much depth
How much "depth" do you expect to get out a group of animals acting "mostly" natural and without a single line of human dialog? With those limitations, I think it excelled. There were even a couple tearjerker moments, for me at least.
Not having dialogue has nothing to do with. While the animals can only be so complex (if acting "naturally"), the storytelling is not limited to just that. They could've probably told more about the world with the elements and places the animals found. The animation was pretty crappy at some points too. The dog for example was not very well done.
Regardless of all of this, I'm not saying it should have been different, I only wanted to express that this movie is not worthy of an oscar when compared to something like Memoir Of A Snail, imo.
Me and my mother watched it a few weeks ago knowing nothing about it and it was really good!
Excellent!
It's so much better than The Wild Robot!
