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Announcing Project Gold: the Next Blender Open Movie

This visual journey will push art-directable, stylized, non-photorealistic design and rendering.
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  • 22 May 2023
  • 2 min read
Francesco Siddi
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As the production of Pet Projects approaches its final stages, the studio team has been working on creative development for what’s next.

Today we are excited to announce the upcoming short film: Project Gold (working title). A “story from the heart”, this metaphorical journey into the depths of human experience explores the fragility of life and our capacity for resilience and inner transformation.

On a creative level, the film will explore an impressionistic, stylized aesthetic. It will be visual poetry, a new territory for Blender Studio.

Style frame exploration by Florent Masurel.
Style frame exploration by Florent Masurel.

In preparation for this project, the team worked hard to align the creative and technical targets with Blender development. Here are the top targets:

  • Advanced rendering techniques, such as light linking. Already in development!
  • Simulation Nodes
  • Geometry Nodes based tools
  • Extend the viewport compositor and interactive image processing
  • Art-directable, stylized, non-photorealistic rendering with Cycles

The project is led by director Jericca Cleland, an experienced storyteller and cinematographer with vast industry experience. Jericca, who started her career in the early days of Pixar and moved on to work with several studios in Europe and North America, will bring her directing, writing and editing expertise to the project.

She will be joined by production designer Florent Masurel, with whom she collaborated on feature films such as Ballerina and Fireheart.

Style frame exploration by Casey Robin and Florent Masurel.
Style frame exploration by Casey Robin and Florent Masurel.

Blender Studio Pipeline

As for the past few projects, the Blender Studio team will continue to share improvements and documentation to the studio pipeline, along with the research and development of new creative techniques.

The project is in early pre-production stage and will pick up speed after the release of Pet Projects (July). The release of Project Gold is targeted for 2024.

Early concept art by Florent Masurel and Casey Robin. More coming soon here on the Blender Studio website.
Early concept art by Florent Masurel and Casey Robin. More coming soon here on the Blender Studio website.

Stay tuned for updates!

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10 comments
Jamal Aboudrar
Jamal Aboudrar
Oct. 3rd, 2023

Looks awsome! Is there a script treatment or any more in dept desciption of the story that I as a community member can read?

Mattias Lind
Mattias Lind
May 26th, 2023

This is going to be very interesting to see! :D Looking forward!

Pedro A.
Pedro A.
May 24th, 2023

Amazing news!

Ivan Bryan
Ivan Bryan
May 24th, 2023

Somehow, Amber Heard returns..

Helge Maus
Helge Maus
May 23rd, 2023

Looks amazing!

Andy Cuccaro
Andy Cuccaro
May 22nd, 2023

Looks absolutely fantastic! Another win for fantasy fans ❤️ You guys are gonna kill it! :D

Kai Müri
Kai Müri
May 22nd, 2023

This sounds amazing! I can't wait to see what you come up with and how far you push it!

Jesús Odremán
Jesús Odremán
May 22nd, 2023

What a great news!!!! the concept art shared augur that it will be a beautiful experience to enjoy this project, I will make an effort to follow their progress in Blender Studio. congratulations to the team, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but although in the Blender open movies team there has been female participation in previous occasions, it seems to me that this is the first Blender open movie directed by a woman. I think this is excellent too, because it allows to explore other artistic ways of storytelling with moving images in Blender. Again, all my respect and admiration for all your work, and thanks a lot for sharing!!!!, success!!!!!

Matias Martin
Matias Martin
May 22nd, 2023

Wow!!!

Jericca Cleland
Jericca Cleland
May 22nd, 2023

Very excited and honoured to be making this film with the talented powerhouse Blender Studio team!!

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