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Tangent Animation is trying to change this! They use almost 100% Blender, have some developers and contribute back to the community. See "Next-Gen" on Netflix f

Tangent Animation is trying to change this! They use almost 100% Blender, have some developers and contribute back to the community. See "Next-Gen" on Netflix for their latest movie. Disclaimer: Worked for them as a Blender developer on Next-Gen

voltagex_ 7y ago
Are you able to talk about anything you did there? I only get to work on open source in my spare time (and nothing as complex as Blender). What did a normal day look like for you?
- diggan 7y ago
  BlenderConf 2018 had a talk from the co-founder of Tangent (Jeff Bell) about how Blender was used for Next Gen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8
  - voltagex_ 7y ago
    Thank you, too.
- swerner 7y ago
  Our repository is public. You can look at every single commit we did: https://github.com/tangent-animation/blender278/commits/master https://github.com/tangent-animation/blender278/commits/mast... "Normal days" changed during the course of the project. In the beginning, it was work on new features for months if necessary, towards the end it were overnight patches for "frame x in shot y looks wrong/crashes/takes forever".
  - voltagex_ 7y ago
    Thank you!
iamcreasy 7y ago
The whole movie is made by Blender? What was the pitfall? Is there any dev blog I can read?
- cpach 7y ago
  Here’s some info I found: https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-production-by-tangent-animation-soon-on-netflix/ https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-pr... Looks like a good movie. And Netflix dubbed it to Swedish! Will probably watch it with my kids some time.
  - mungoid 7y ago
    My kid definitely liked it. I love anything CG so I'm extremely interested want to watch again knowing blender was 100% used.
  - module0000 7y ago
    My kids went wild for Next-Gen, I had no idea it was done in Blender! The graphics are first-class, really impressive stuff. I'm an amateur, but I couldn't tell it apart from other studios such as Pixar.
    - sprafa 7y ago
      Blender’s built in tenderer is known to be quite good, but I’m not sure they used it on the movie.
      - dtf 7y ago
        Cycles (Blender's built in path tracer) with some modifications. (Cryptomattes are now in 2.8, and the Embree patch will be integrated somewhere after.) "Yes, cycles was used for everything, though our version of cycles was modified (with stefan's embree core, and crypto-mattes which were beyond valuable for compositing). The version of blender we used was the studios own dev version (which I believe was using blender 2.78 as it's base?)" https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-production-by-tangent-animation-soon-on-netflix/#comment-769061 https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-pr...
nineteen999 7y ago
I watched this with my kid just the other day, I had no idea it was done with Blender. It has also been used for many of the VFX shots in the TV show "Man in the High Castle". https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-man-in-the-high-castle/ https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-...

voltagex_ 7y ago

Are you able to talk about anything you did there? I only get to work on open source in my spare time (and nothing as complex as Blender). What did a normal day look like for you?

diggan 7y ago
BlenderConf 2018 had a talk from the co-founder of Tangent (Jeff Bell) about how Blender was used for Next Gen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8
- voltagex_ 7y ago
  Thank you, too.
swerner 7y ago
Our repository is public. You can look at every single commit we did: https://github.com/tangent-animation/blender278/commits/master https://github.com/tangent-animation/blender278/commits/mast... "Normal days" changed during the course of the project. In the beginning, it was work on new features for months if necessary, towards the end it were overnight patches for "frame x in shot y looks wrong/crashes/takes forever".
- voltagex_ 7y ago
  Thank you!

iamcreasy 7y ago

The whole movie is made by Blender? What was the pitfall? Is there any dev blog I can read?

cpach 7y ago
Here’s some info I found: https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-production-by-tangent-animation-soon-on-netflix/ https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-pr... Looks like a good movie. And Netflix dubbed it to Swedish! Will probably watch it with my kids some time.
- mungoid 7y ago
  My kid definitely liked it. I love anything CG so I'm extremely interested want to watch again knowing blender was 100% used.
- module0000 7y ago
  My kids went wild for Next-Gen, I had no idea it was done in Blender! The graphics are first-class, really impressive stuff. I'm an amateur, but I couldn't tell it apart from other studios such as Pixar.
  - sprafa 7y ago
    Blender’s built in tenderer is known to be quite good, but I’m not sure they used it on the movie.
    - dtf 7y ago
      Cycles (Blender's built in path tracer) with some modifications. (Cryptomattes are now in 2.8, and the Embree patch will be integrated somewhere after.) "Yes, cycles was used for everything, though our version of cycles was modified (with stefan's embree core, and crypto-mattes which were beyond valuable for compositing). The version of blender we used was the studios own dev version (which I believe was using blender 2.78 as it's base?)" https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-production-by-tangent-animation-soon-on-netflix/#comment-769061 https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-pr...

nineteen999 7y ago

I watched this with my kid just the other day, I had no idea it was done with Blender. It has also been used for many of the VFX shots in the TV show "Man in the High Castle". https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-man-in-the-high-castle/ https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-...