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Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by valine on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:18PM (#14100875)
The vfx in Amazon's Man in the High Castle were done in Blender. There's a pretty big cultural shift that would need to happen for Blender to become common place in the film industry, but I'm starting to feel optimistic.

https://www.blendernation.com/2017/02/23/man-high-castle-sea...

Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by dtf on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:53PM (#14101127)
I must have missed that news, that showreel is phenomenal! Linked in the comments was a Reddit AMA with the VFX creators, including this really interesting reply on their choice of Blender:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5rvwo2/comment/dddidn...

Re:Blender 2.79: OpenCL on par with CUDA by danmaz74 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @07:06AM (#14105798)
Thanks for the data point and link, incredibly interesting!