Blender and Next Gen: a Netflix Original
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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.
Cited as evidence that Blender can power feature animation and for its look at a real production process.
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4 comments from Hacker News
They had a presentation at the blender conference about it [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.
BlenderConf 2018 had a talk from the co-founder of Tangent (Jeff Bell) about how Blender was used for Next Gen: [VIDEO]
Not just side projects. We did two feature animations using Blender, more projects in the pipeline: [VIDEO]
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: [VIDEO]