Sprite Fright
Blender Studio’s 13th open movie is an 80’s-inspired horror comedy, set in Britain: When a group of rowdy teenagers trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.
Blender Studio is the creative part of the Blender HQ. A dedicated team of artists and developers challenge themselves with creative-technical targets to help Blender users and to drive Blender development forward. This happens in an open source production environment and by sharing everything they make in an open and free license.
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The Blender Studio levels up its storytelling super-powers!
For this project, the Blender Studio team wanted to take a more story-focused approach to movie-making, as well as improving its 3D production pipeline. With Matthew Luhn (Pixar story artist veteran) as director, working with a team of 20+ artists and developers, this is Blender Studio’s most ambitious production to date.
All assets, film versions and know-how are being shared as part of the process.
Movie Versions
124
Pre-Production Assets
100+
Follow the production progress, week by week
Check the weekly progress of the team through “Production Logs”, where artists share breakdowns, artwork and .blend files. This allows you to deep-dive into actual production content, and learn by example.
As an added bonus, check out the weekly updates on YouTube!
Production Logs
62
Artist Entries
380+
Film Assets
1900+
Discover how we built our pipeline for film making!
One target for the team was to improve and extend the Blender Studio production pipeline, and to share those tools and insights with the community.
Sharing Production Lessons
During production, we regularly release short-form training to document techniques or creative processes.
For example: lead animator Rik Schutte shows how he uses Grease Pencil for animating smear frames for cartoony animation, and shading artist Simon Thommes shares several procedural surfacing workflows.
Production Lessons
30
Hours of content
45+
Access all the content, .blend files included!
Download over 5000 production files directly from Blender Studio.
Subscribe & get insider access to Sprite Fright today!
Join Blender Studio and get access to hundreds of hours of training, production assets and files from the Open Movies as well as a platform to learn at your own pace, in your own time.
Follow along with movie production
Download film files, rigs and assets
Learn from our production lessons
Access to all training, assets
and films for €11.50/month