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Are any of these good as films? As in, something I should strongly consider watching on its own merits rather than because of how it was produced and distribute

Are any of these good as films? As in, something I should strongly consider watching on its own merits rather than because of how it was produced and distributed?

lucubratory 3y ago
I love Blender and the Blender animation studio, but no, not really. There is a quite good movie that's been made entirely in Blender though, NEXT GEN on Netflix. It's a kids movie, if you liked Big Hero 6 you'll probably like it. They even did the video compositing in Blender, which is... pretty insane from my perspective. But the quality of the end product speaks for itself.
- countrymile 3y ago
  Also worth watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_and_the_Three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_and_the_Three which looks very pretty. Compositing is pretty straight forward compared to the video editor(was/is?)!
  - lucubratory 3y ago
    Video editing is what I meant, brain fart.
- diggan 3y ago
  The Next Gen folks also presented everything about the production process at Blender Conference 2018 and hanged around to talk with us Blender nerds! Fun to see the actual process behind real, released films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8
- lukan 3y ago
  "They even did the video compositing in Blender, which is... pretty insane from my perspective." Can you elaborate? What features are missing there for professional use? I used it for a simple video and it worked, but was not that intuitive.
  - Joeboy 3y ago
    No OFX plugins. And time I used the compositor, comparatively abysmal performance. Although there's a new, accelerated viewport compositor thing since then, not sure if the regular compositor's also faster.
- a_gnostic 3y ago
  IRON SKY (2018) was partially made on Blender.
wongarsu 3y ago
Sintel is worth watching. I believe it's also the longest one at about 15 minutes.
pilaf 3y ago
I also don't think you should strongly consider watching any of them (and this is coming from a Blender fan), but they're all short films so if you have a few minutes to kill you may as well try watching one. I personally thought Sprite Fright was a fun watch (10m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cMxraX_5RE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cMxraX_5RE
Joeboy 3y ago
I loved Cosmos Laundromat, personally. Even though it didn't end up being the full feature it was supposed to. Some of the others were pretty decent, but that was the standout for me.
shaan7 3y ago
Big Buck Bunny is very funny, and Sintel is a cute story with a nice little song at the end.
riidom 3y ago
I'd recommend Sprite Fight, Coffee Run, Sintel (in that order).

Are any of these good as films? As in, something I should strongly consider watching on its own merits rather than because of how it was produced and distributed?

lucubratory 3y ago

I love Blender and the Blender animation studio, but no, not really. There is a quite good movie that's been made entirely in Blender though, NEXT GEN on Netflix. It's a kids movie, if you liked Big Hero 6 you'll probably like it. They even did the video compositing in Blender, which is... pretty insane from my perspective. But the quality of the end product speaks for itself.

countrymile 3y ago
Also worth watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_and_the_Three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_and_the_Three which looks very pretty. Compositing is pretty straight forward compared to the video editor(was/is?)!
- lucubratory 3y ago
  Video editing is what I meant, brain fart.
diggan 3y ago
The Next Gen folks also presented everything about the production process at Blender Conference 2018 and hanged around to talk with us Blender nerds! Fun to see the actual process behind real, released films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8
lukan 3y ago
"They even did the video compositing in Blender, which is... pretty insane from my perspective." Can you elaborate? What features are missing there for professional use? I used it for a simple video and it worked, but was not that intuitive.
- Joeboy 3y ago
  No OFX plugins. And time I used the compositor, comparatively abysmal performance. Although there's a new, accelerated viewport compositor thing since then, not sure if the regular compositor's also faster.
a_gnostic 3y ago
IRON SKY (2018) was partially made on Blender.

wongarsu 3y ago

Sintel is worth watching. I believe it's also the longest one at about 15 minutes.

pilaf 3y ago

I also don't think you should strongly consider watching any of them (and this is coming from a Blender fan), but they're all short films so if you have a few minutes to kill you may as well try watching one. I personally thought Sprite Fright was a fun watch (10m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cMxraX_5RE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cMxraX_5RE

Joeboy 3y ago

I loved Cosmos Laundromat, personally. Even though it didn't end up being the full feature it was supposed to. Some of the others were pretty decent, but that was the standout for me.

shaan7 3y ago

Big Buck Bunny is very funny, and Sintel is a cute story with a nice little song at the end.

riidom 3y ago

I'd recommend Sprite Fight, Coffee Run, Sintel (in that order).