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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

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Pre-Production Assets

100+

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Story Recap - Edit v027
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Story Recap - Edit v027

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Story Recap - Edit v022
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Story Recap - Edit v022
Poster - simple
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Poster - simple
Final Bird Shading - Frame
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Final Bird Shading - Frame
Log Bridge Set - Feedback Adjustments
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Log Bridge Set - Feedback Adjustments
Elder Sprite - Beard Layering
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Elder Sprite - Beard Layering
Backpack - Shading
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Backpack - Shading
whack-a-mole set: more tree modeling and spiderweb
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whack-a-mole set: more tree modeling and spiderweb
fire 'sculpting' animation test
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fire 'sculpting' animation test
Bush library - geometry node example asset preview
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Bush library - geometry node example
Rex Beer Burp Animation (wip)
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Rex Beer Burp Animation (wip)
Rex acting test 2s (rendering 1)
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Rex acting test 2s (rendering 1)
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