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  • Open Source Wins An Oscar

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 01:53:55 2025
    A movie called “Flow” has won the Oscar for the best animated feature
    film. What’s interesting about it is it was created by a small,
    independent company, using Blender 3D open-source software. For those
    familiar only with proprietary DCC tools, Blender is just about the
    only app remaining that covers all the major stages of the production
    line in a single, integrated workflow.

    <https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/>
    <https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/>

    This is not the first time Blender has won a major award. In 2019, it
    was given the Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement, or “Annie”,
    by the professional animation industry <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXBHwaIzCrI>.

    And “I Lost My Body” won the Nespresso Grand Prize at Cannes that same year.
    <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9806192/trivia>

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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Mar 3 01:59:31 2025
    On 2025-03-03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    A movie called “Flow” has won the Oscar for the best animated feature film. What’s interesting about it is it was created by a small,
    independent company, using Blender 3D open-source software. For those familiar only with proprietary DCC tools, Blender is just about the
    only app remaining that covers all the major stages of the production
    line in a single, integrated workflow.

    <https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/>
    <https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/>

    This is not the first time Blender has won a major award. In 2019, it
    was given the Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement, or “Annie”,
    by the professional animation industry
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXBHwaIzCrI>.

    And “I Lost My Body” won the Nespresso Grand Prize at Cannes that same year.
    <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9806192/trivia>

    Excellent! That is so cool!
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 4 20:55:22 2025
    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 01:53:55 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

    A movie called “Flow” has won the Oscar for the best animated feature film. What’s interesting about it is it was created by a small,
    independent company, using Blender 3D open-source software.

    I have been looking at a number of reports of Flow’s Oscar win, and many
    of them mention the fact that it was made with open-source Blender
    software. Reuters was one, and Variety (pretty much the Hollywood trade
    rag) and USA Today were others.

    Gints Zilbalodis even mentioned Blender in his acceptance speech.

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Mar 4 21:48:38 2025
    On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:55:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:


    I have been looking at a number of reports of Flow’s Oscar win, and many
    of them mention the fact that it was made with open-source Blender
    software. Reuters was one, and Variety (pretty much the Hollywood trade
    rag) and USA Today were others.


    It certainly is a victory for FOSS but is it also a victory for
    GNU/Linux?

    Blender is cross platform which means it is released in versions
    for Microslop, Apphole, and GNU/Linux.

    Did the creators of this animation use Microslop, Apphole, or
    GNU/Linux?

    If the creators did not use the GNU/Linux version of Blender then
    the victory is not a victory at all.



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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Mar 23 14:40:03 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 01:53 this Monday (GMT):
    A movie called “Flow” has won the Oscar for the best animated feature film. What’s interesting about it is it was created by a small,
    independent company, using Blender 3D open-source software. For those familiar only with proprietary DCC tools, Blender is just about the
    only app remaining that covers all the major stages of the production
    line in a single, integrated workflow.

    <https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/>
    <https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/>

    This is not the first time Blender has won a major award. In 2019, it
    was given the Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement, or “Annie”,
    by the professional animation industry
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXBHwaIzCrI>.

    And “I Lost My Body” won the Nespresso Grand Prize at Cannes that same year.
    <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9806192/trivia>


    Awesome!

    I will say that Blender is at the "industry standard" level, so I'm not
    at all surprised, but it's nice that there's more showing just how
    quality the software is.
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    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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