Blender and Next Gen: a Netflix Original
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as evidence that Blender can power feature animation and for its look at a real production process.
What it is
Jeff Bell's Blender Conference 2018 talk on how Netflix's animated film Next Gen was produced using Blender. It covers the studio's pipeline and tooling.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends diggan · 2024-02 · on “Blender Open Movies. Featuring all the production files, assets, and artwork”
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: [this video]
Cites hex12648430 · 2019-06 · on “Blender Is Free Software”
They had a presentation at the blender conference about it [this video] Yes, almost everything is made in blender except for some textures which were painted in Substance Painter and volumetric effects like explosions which were generated in FumeFX and Houdini before being imported, rendered and composited in blender.
Cites diggan · 2019-06 · on “Blender Is Free Software”
BlenderConf 2018 had a talk from the co-founder of Tangent (Jeff Bell) about how Blender was used for Next Gen: [this video]
Cites swerner · 2021-04 · on “Renderman”
Not just side projects. We did two feature animations using Blender, more projects in the pipeline: [this video]