Blender and Next Gen: a Netflix Original

Blender · 188K views · 2018-11-04 · 36:04

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Overview

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.

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Cited as evidence that Blender can power feature animation and for its look at a real production process.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

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Animation & visual effects Filmmaking & video production

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diggan · 2024-02 · Recommendation
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]
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swerner · 2021-04 · Reference
Not just side projects. We did two feature animations using Blender, more projects in the pipeline: [VIDEO]
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hex12648430 · 2019-06 · Reference
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.
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