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THAT'S WHY IT LOOKED LIKE A GAME!!
Back when I first saw the trailer, I instantly assumed it was a game, only to be surprised it was a movie.
The Eevee renderer uses tons of the same rendering techniques as game engines, to achieve its fast rendering speed.
I have to say, when I saw the trailer it absolutely did not make me want to watch the movie.
It looked exactly like an in-engine game cutscene, and that just felt really jarring to me, and visually distracting from enjoying the story.
Perhaps I should give it a try regardless.
I've been watching machinema since I was a wee lad in the 2000s with halo 2 being peak for me. I am so pumped the tech is there for full length feature films! This is like the opposite effect for me, I want "cheaper" methods of making what matters: the story and the narrative using cinematic language. Very glad eevee is getting recognized. Whether it's hand drawn or rendered in a billion dollar engine that took 50 years to render one frame or with realtime 3d, I don't care. I just want it to be easy for a kid to say "I have a story to tell and I want it on a screen" and be able to do that without weird criticism like "you did it with the wrong tools"
I'm glad for that too. Making the barrier to creative entry lower is going to help people bring their vision to life, and that's great. I'm pleased that Flow was made, and that more things like it will also be made, and I'm sure some of those things will have a visual style which I really vibe with.
One more thing for me to add that I just found a bit interesting after thinking about it:
People pay $70 for glorified movies in video game format. I know I just wanted to see the story of Knights of the Old Republic more than anything when I was a little kid and playing it. Not diminishing anything about games, I'm just talking about the market economics now haha, I know these are games and we can't just say $70 for this vs $20 for a 1.5h movie, but there is absolutely a market incentive for these types of films to be made. They are cheap alternatives (and better for the environment) to video game movies. Think high quality actual plays of story rich video games.
People love the stories of MGS as well, and that series might as well be just be a movie , I "watched" all of metal gear solid on YouTube because I don't have a PlayStation growing up. I would love for an eevee version of all of those cutscenes, and I'm sure others would and probably pay for that—I'd throw $10 at that I think instead of having to play through all of it now that I'm in my 30s
/rant lol
I’m just excited to see new ways for people to express themselves through art
I watched it, but couldn't finish it, for the aforementioned reason. The visuals were pretty decent for a benchmark test, but that's about it. Take a shot whenever the cat falls out of the boat.
It was a little jarring sometimes. The character animations specifically felt very video gamey, like they were being strung together and blended like video games to to allow simi-fluid animations with player freedom. Despite that distraction, the story was great, and the drama of the scenes were top notch.
Honestly I think it happening to a cat instead of a human really made a difference, because we've all watched humans fake drown or fake die a million times.
I felt the same way but we always watch all the animation nominees so I gave it a go. The look is exactly what you see in the trailer, kind of under cooked for a feature in my opinion. But the animation is great the movement and, for lack of a better word, flow feel really nice. The story is pretty good too, lots of feeling and tension I related to the characters and like them all. The ending didn’t quite hit but more sputtered a bit. Over all I’ve seen a lot worse Academy Award winners and I’d recommend watching it.
It played out like a game too
Flow is very relaxing to watch.
It's part of its beauty is that there is no speech and the takes are really long with smooth and slow camera movements. I think it doesn't take a lot of processing to watch.
My dog watches this movie in silence, I've seen this movie once. He's seen it 3 times 😅
Relaxing?
I loved it, but I felt like the cat was about to drown every 3 minutes. Heart strings were taut.
Forgive the pedantry. It’s *taut.
You sure taught 'em!
Thx
I wasn't worried for the cat, maybe the fact that they could control a boat made it seem like plot armor.
I was surprised about the other thing though.
Watched this over the weekend (twice, since my wife fell asleep the first time) and our pup sat to watch it with us. The dog has occasionally noticed things on the TV before, but I've never seen her intently watch anything for so long as she did Flow. Mostly silent, with the occasional bark or growl. Wonder why so many pets are fascinated by this film?
I think the quality of it is impressive. The animation is high quality. The feeling of the characters is well communicated despite the lack of dialog.
With that said, I couldn't make it more than 20 minutes into it. It was just too painful to watch the cat meowing and in need of help while in mortal danger.
Oh lordy no, between the cat nearly drowning multiple times (I have a long history of recurring dreams of dying by drowning) and the birds torturing the one bird, I'm going to give the whole thing a miss. I really appreciate that whole "Does The Dog Die?" website.
Yeah, it really feels like they should have put a warning card at the beginning.
That bird scene made me so unbelievably angry and sad.
I did not know about the blender connection. That’s awesome!
I have only seen a little bit of the movie so far, but I do love the style.
It’s nice to see such distinct styles coming to CGI animated films. Not everything needs to look like sonic or Mario, even though those do look good. The recent Dog Man kids movie, adapted from elementary school visual novels, also stood out to me.
…I might have to go rewatch Into the Spiderverse.
I hope they gave back with some $$ credits lol.
I know paying people in "exposure" is cliche, but I think using your software to make an Oscar award winning film is just about the best kind of exposure you could ask for.
They specifically thanked Blender as well
I love Blender and am glad to see a popular feature film made with it, although I can’t say I’m a fan of the visuals or the movie in general.
Amazing movie. Supposedly there was little or no comp involved either. Just straight out of evee. Very enjoyable