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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Sprite Fright: Set Dressing Tips

Advice learned from Set Dressing in film productions here at Blender.

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Sprite Fright: Illusion of Simplicity

Julien shares insights from the design process of Sprite Fright

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Sprite Fright: Sculpting Advice

Julien shares his tips for character sculpting in film production, and lessons learned in Sprite Fright.

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Sprite Fright Showreel

Enjoy this behind the scenes look for the Sprite Fright short film by Blender Studio.

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Denoising Sprite Fright

At the end of the production we were facing a high level of noise in some of the key shots. This is how we handled the denoising.

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Sprite Fright Edit Bundle

This article is a quick walkthrough of the Sprite Fright Edit Bundle.

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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

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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

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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.

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Sprite Fright

Sprite Fright: Set Dressing Tips

Sprite Fright: Illusion of Simplicity

Sprite Fright: Sculpting Advice

Sprite Fright Showreel

Denoising Sprite Fright

Sprite Fright Edit Bundle

The Blender Studio levels up its storytelling super-powers!

124

100+

Follow the production progress, week by week

62

380+

1900+

Discover how we built our pipeline for film making!

Sharing Production Lessons

30

45+

Access all the content, .blend files included!

Subscribe & get insider access to Sprite Fright today!

Follow along with movie production

Download film files, rigs and assets

Learn from our production lessons

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Sprite Fright

Sprite Fright: Set Dressing Tips

Sprite Fright: Illusion of Simplicity

Sprite Fright: Sculpting Advice

Sprite Fright Showreel

Denoising Sprite Fright

Sprite Fright Edit Bundle

The Blender Studio levels up its storytelling super-powers!

124

100+

Follow the production progress, week by week

62

380+

1900+

Discover how we built our pipeline for film making!

Sharing Production Lessons

30

45+

Access all the content, .blend files included!

Subscribe & get insider access to Sprite Fright today!

Follow along with movie production

Download film files, rigs and assets

Learn from our production lessons