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Next Gen
2018 · Film · 105 min
Directed by Kevin R. Adams, Joe Ksander
AnimationActionAdventureComedyFamilyScience Fiction
A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman.
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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.
IIRC Movie Next Gen (available on netflix) creator's– Tangent Animation used blender extensively
source : https://lesterbanks.com/2018/09/rigging-next-gen-feature-film-blender/
Tangent animation in Canada did Next Gen on Netflix with Blender.
Most of the major film studios have huge pipelines in Maya and Houdini etc... Until recently, Blender wasn't even interested in partaking in a pipeline (Tons' own words at SIGGRAPH 2017)
Recently that has shifted and blender is looking to be able to be integrated into pipelines Which might help adoption. Such things as supporting Pixar USD and the VFX reference platform.
In addition to that, Blender did an overhaul of their UI and renderer that brought a lot of interest in.
I expect to see Blender in studios sooner rather than later, but I don't expect it to supplant the existing DCC packages.
There's still a lot of friction to working with other DCCs, still a lot of performance issues with larger scenes, and then there's issues with support, extensibility and licensing.
Corporations are averse to GPL and Blender is all GPL. They might get more adoption if they dual licensed their plugin API.
Also since it has no C api, it's not attractive from an extensibility perspective.
Finally, the major studios like to have support contracts to expedite fixes to blocking issues. Blender doesn't have such a thing. Yes , it's open source but it requires crewing up for something that a support contract would cover .
More and more studios are starting to use Blender. For instance Tangent Animation used it for their movie "Next Gen" that is on Netflix.
Ah yes, Blender the "hobbyist" tool that's also:
* Used by NASA for a lot of their 3d modelling
* Used in Spider Man 2 for storyboarding
* Used for some special effects in Red Dwarf
* Used in Captain America: The Winter Soldier for previsualization
* Rendered the entirety of the movie Next Gen
The list goes on and grows every year. No, it won't affect the next Pixar movie, but if that's your standard then 3Delight sounds like just as much of a hobbyist thing.
I was worried about all of the above when switching to Arch (Manjaro KDE) from Windows as a web developer/CGI artist/graphic designer, however it's been easier than expected and I've decided to stick with it. Maybe these programs are worth your time:
DaVinci Resolve for video/audio editing on Linux, which has a great free version and may be the best editing software on the market for any platform. I've done a few professional jobs with it and greatly preferred it to Adobe Premiere/After Effects/Audition. Highly recommended.
Krita is great for photo editing/digital painting and Inkscape does a good job of replacing Illustrator for most uses. GIMP is still unbearable for professional use. This is the biggest gap in quality software for me - nothing can truly replace Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator or InDesign yet.
Figma is perfect for UI design/wireframing/prototyping and has a fully featured web app.
Blender is insanely powerful for free software these days (see Next Gen on Netflix for a feature-length movie created entirely in Blender) and Octane/Redshift render engines are available for industry quality 3D images.
VSCode handles all of my web development and native Linux terminals are much, much faster than WSL when installing and running tools like Webpack, Gulp etc.
LibreOffice covers 99% of use cases and looks pretty slick with a good theme, however I use Google Docs or Office 365 to ensure compatibility with clients' machines.
Here’s some info I found: https://www.blendernation.com/2018/08/20/next-gen-blender-production-by-tangent-animation-soon-on-netflix/
Looks like a good movie. And Netflix dubbed it to Swedish! Will probably watch it with my kids some time.
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
But they are always obviously evil corporations. They never have a hip logo with cute aesthetics, and a sneaker clad hoodie wearing slacker founder. The movie Next Gen on Netflix is a good example of this though. The evil corp in that movie is basically Apple.
The recent Netflix animated movie 'Next Gen' was made in Blender. The production company is also contributing enhancements they made to Blender back to the main project.