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Re:Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar by raxxorraxor on Monday March 03, 2025 @05:01AM (#43240184)
What do people mean with technically impressive? There are Blender renders that look quite incredible though and you just cannot differentiate it from real picture anymore

Example: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58586fa5ebbd1a...

There are probably some flaws here as well, but you need to study the picture in detail. And Flow used the fast renderer of Blender, not the quality one.

Still, it does have a unique style that is much more interesting than many other animated movies. So what is technically impressive, just throwing more compute at it to make it photorealistic?

I think art style will have a larger impact. In a way it is technically impressive as it didn't need a lot of compute power.

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Re:Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar by WhatThisGuySaid on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:48AM (#43241234)
I think people are specifically referring to the movie not looking technically impressive, not that Blender isn't capable of technically impressive renders at all.
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