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Cited as evidence that Blender can power feature animation and for its look at a real production process.
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.
“Fun to see the actual process behind real, released films” (HN, 2024)
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]
Behind-the-scenes look at Next Gen production process.
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.
Conference talk on how Next Gen was made in Blender.
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