188K views · Nov 4, 2018 · 36:04 · 1 HN recommender · 4 mentions · discussed 2019–2024
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as evidence that Blender can power feature animation and for its look at a real production process.
“Fun to see the actual process behind real, released films”HN comment, 2024
“Fun to see the actual process behind real, released films”
Behind-the-scenes look at Next Gen production process.
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
“They had a presentation at the blender conference about it”
Conference talk on how Next Gen was made in Blender.
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.
Tangent co-founder on using Blender for Next Gen.
BlenderConf 2018 had a talk from the co-founder of Tangent (Jeff Bell) about how Blender was used for Next Gen: this video
Example of feature animations made in Blender.
Not just side projects. We did two feature animations using Blender, more projects in the pipeline: this video
