Blender Studio releases Sprite Fright
Nov 02, 2021 by CGP Staff
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The latest open movie project produced by Blender HQ’s creative arm has been made available online. Sprite Fright is an 80’s-inspired horror comedy written and directed by former Pixar story supervisor Matthew Luhn and co-directed by Hjalti Hjálmarsson. Andy Goralczyk, who worked on the very first open movie project Elephants Dream, served as art director. As with previous productions at Blender Studio, the short film was made with the intention to further advance Blender’s capabilities. This time the main focus was on pipeline development, on tools and systems to help artists collaborate and work more efficiently. Watch the film and find out more on Blender Studio.
It’s time to stop have fun from violence.
Couldn’t agree more. Big disappointment from Blender Studio.
As for the style, it’s not even consistent (look at the character’s hair for example).
Worst Blender movie ever.
Nobody forced you to watch it and it’s free.
So if you don’t like it, don’t watch it and go complain in your own toddler head.
Wonderful fun movie.
Of course neo Marxist puritans are irritated because other people have fun outside their miserable anti-human outlook.
What? I enjoyed the animation and don’t see anything wrong with it as long as no one is showing it to their kids…But your comment sure seems like you are just looking for an opportunity to rant/insult against whatever you feel like.
So having a different opinion from you is ranting. Censorship is the objective here.
Violence is part of humanity. The comments above are denying humanity, because violence comes from discord which comes from thinking.
Tell me, you know what is a law? law for a start is an authorisation to do violence, supposedly legal violence. While some laws are to deny bigger violence and protect the undefended most are not . How do impose the laws that you agree with on people that do not? only by violence.
Art should encompass all human soul. No to censorship.
What you originally gave was not really an opinion other than it was a fun movie; you were insulting them based on their opinion. If you would have wrote what you just wrote here, there, that would have been an opinion that one could have a discussion about.
For what it’s worth; the people I know that would be against this movie are the very religious types from the Midwest. They aren’t in any way “Marxist”, they lean far right. That’s not an opinion, just an observation. Censorship happens everywhere, in all groups. Not just your insinuated Marxist boogie mans.
Seriously just STFU and let people have fun with this great non-bland movie.
If it’s too much for you to take, go watch the carebears censored edition and go.away.
I am so tired of this world where any moron will complain about anything.
Too violent, too white, too masculine, too blahhh blahhhhh.
Looks like 10fps movie
Wow, you guys are funny!
First off, I’m no Marxist or religious. I can enjoy violence when it’s well crafted, executed, and above all, organic with a story that has more to offer than just that (for example, Old Boy). Sprite Fight has nothing to do with any of that. It’s just gratuitous.
How pathetic to insult someone for his/her opinion by argumenting it with just another opinion.
I enjoyed lots of Beep Beep, Tom and Jerry and many others cartoons.
The story is a fight for territory. Old has there has been life – not only human – on earth.
There is a galaxy-distance between Tom and Jerry, RoadRunner and this SpriteFrigth&Co. I grew up too with Tom&Jerry, Coyote&RoadRunner, BuggsBunny and ThePinkPanther. Coarse, politically-incorrect, raw, funny, intellectual, universal (both adults and children can watch it) – evergreen. They are a kind of a visual Jazz: You can still watch them today and they have lost nothing in both screenplay-quality, actuality, action and story.
This thing here, as well as 1 million other productions running today are mass-produced, flat, restrained, industrially multiplied entertainment. The character designs are exchangeable, the plot something we have seen 1000 times. As if the producers and artists were afraid to release their energy and break out the platitudes and predefined social-engineered defaults. (and I am sure a lot of them are – one dare not today to move mentally outside of the mainstream narrative, otherwise you can search for a job as taxi-driver)
This has nothing to do with Blender or the quality 3D-Artists has delivered. It is a screenshot of what our society expects to get (or has become), of how media (both commercially and politically) want us to consume as moving-pictures and how we have got mentally lazy and satisfied with cheap, profane “art”. It’s a visual fast-food. The only good thing I can say here is: it is definitely a good manual, laborious work of modeling, rigging and lighting, and most of all – it is for small children: it flashes, it is loud, that is all they see. I am sure there was not a StarWars-Budget in it, and therefore I can applaud to the well executed, finished films under very hard conditions. Not every studio can do it.
Right, let’s add violence to anything, then. What is that supposed to mean?
Compare Old Boy to Squid Game, tell me how violence is being used differently, and then we can have a conversation.
One can depict violence in different ways.
The annoying thing is that there’s people who commented above who clearly has very poor education, if anything at all. They can only come with the old, trite, cliché attack of communism, religion, and boring arguments like that. By the same logic, since they like gratuity violence, I can call them fascists, which they probably are regardless of their pathetic fascination with violence, but more simply because of the ignorance they show. Must be either ignorant kids or brainless adults. Either way, they disgust me for their lack of education.
Gosh, Marco, five times the word “VIOLENCE”, a “religion”, “old”, “communism” and “ignorance” (“Tolerance” is missing).
Two times “you are not educated”!
Goddamnit, log out from your facebook and twitter and stop reading NewYorkTimes, you are drifting away. If you keep repeating this narrative mantras, you are running danger of becoming one of those ugly, leftist, cancel-culture clowns. Believe me, I recognize the symptoms!
Please come back to us, become again a free-thinking 3D-artist, not influenced by modern trash media! Create Art as you like it, not as they tell you to do it, and flash us with the New. We are here and we will wait for your great designs, I promise!
Believe me, I couldn’t be farther away from cancel-culture mania. I didn’t like it with me-too movement, not because it was wrong in its principles, but because of the way it’s been used. And same goes for the LGTBQ situation — thanks Chappelle for doing that, no wonder they reacted the way they did.
I repeated those words because that’s all those comment here offered to argue on.
But, yes, I’m obsessed with education for the simple reason that nowadays it’s so much needed, so missing, and so in danger. Everything starts there. Not only oneself willing to learn, but also the peril that lies in the educational system, which shifted towards technique at the expense of humanism. Look how often the word Art is overused. Nowadays, it’s sufficient to render an astronaut for people to call themselves artist (the astronaut it’s just an example, of course).
And the reason I also insisted on communism is that, for how ironic it is, the people who often accuse others of being communist, don’t even realize they’re the most emblematic figures in that sense. But in order to understand that, they would need to ready a book for once. My advice: it’s all explained in Marshall McLuhan’s work.
“Right, let’s add violence to anything, then”
Who said that? When the cgpress puts here a film with no violence do anyone came here to criticize the lack of violence? It is you and some others that want to determine what can be seen.
Other part of your text shows your “poor education” Marco. There are no Fascism without Socialism and Fascism itself evolved from Marxism. Do you know of Italo-Soviet Union Pact?…
Both are highly intellectual movements. What you say shows once more you follow propaganda and never really went deep to understand what are and what made those movements.
The shear and methodical violence of Marxists, Nazis, Fascists in less degree can only be achieved by intellect because most persons do not make naturally that level of brutality.
Do you know that Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao were highly read persons?
That they were probably “educated” to a level that you, me and others do not?
Maybe you should check the personal libraries of the despots above. How many books they had and read…
Having education do not necessarily make good. Evil do not come always from lack of education. At country, continent size can only appear with it.
PS: check for Stalin library, Hitler library. Mao library etc. seems you will be surprised…
So according to Igor, Movies and TV shows are bad because they are constrained by the leftist woke agenda. Amazing!
It requires admirable shortcuts in the brain to draw a line from my text to your conclusion. Amazing!
But when I read your conclusion and think about it, I must say you are not totally wrong. There is not much good in the leftist woke agenda indeed.
Not really, I just used a find shortest path algorithm. I actually have read lot of the things you post and have found your insights revealing and interesting. Sad to find out you are a right winger or maybe libertarian. You do realise that conservative views have been the norm for most of human history and what you call a leftist woke agenda are just people trying to get an equal footing.
“…trying to get….”
Haha,no. It is power,. Absolute Messianic , Discritionary. All others are “infidels”.
Primitive. No checks and balances, no separation of powers.
Not only according to Igor… and certainly not the only motive for dreadful stuff out there.
To Alexs : perhaps in your neck of the woods, “educated” means having read a book other than the Bible. But I can assure you that it’s not what it means in the rest of the world ( surprise, the World doesn’t mean America ! )
And don’t forget to check if there’s a communist hidden beneath your bed before going to sleep.
That you think i am in “America” – i never even visited it – and that i am religious person shows how limited is your culture.
I think they did a great job. I like the stop-motion style. There are some great breakdowns worth checking out on Youtube of how they did the work. I’m excited for Blender 3.0.
Personally I didn’t find the violence offensive. I’m not sure how that makes me a fascist or a Marxist or not, I don’t f**kin know. Anyway, the ridiculousness of the comments remind me of Godwin’s law which asserts that as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 1. We did it in12 comments guys! Congratulations us. .
Pretty sure everyone in the comments is a russion troll trying to incite violence because this short was very charming and I think my favorite new blender studios short.
Good work team. Can’t wait to see what you make next. ❤
I liked the contrast from idyllic to violent.
I also think technically it is very well done.
wow, of all the websites I visit, I never expected to see stupid political fights here.
Out of all the cg news websites cgpress comment section is the only one that managed to get a fight out of this. I think we should market this. This website can be famous.
hahahaha, so funny.