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.
Nuh uh, headline. I bet the soundtrack wasn’t made in Blender
Yeah. The headline is an editorialisation by OP, not the original headline.
I wouldn’t be surprised. I like this one where the guy reproduces an entire functional/usable physical camera within Blender.
Magnetized needle and a steady hand.
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.
I made a game in Blender! Like the other reply said, it used to have a game engine built-in.
Blender used to have a games engine built into it. It was actually kinda fun but shit, they axed it once Unity became king.
You think I’m going to believe you? A deceptacon? Haha. Nice try.
I wonder what they used for that. Perhaps Ardour.