Flow (2024) Directed by Gints Zilbalodis I wanted to watch Flow because it was made entirely on Blender, the FOSS animation program. FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software, programs available to anyone for free, built and maintained by a global community of developers who believe software should be accessible rather than locked behind corporate paywalls. I had Blender installed on my computer once but found the learning curve too steep to justify for my limited needs. Nevertheless, I was impressed by what's possible when you can actually access professional-grade tools without mortgaging your creative future to Adobe or Autodesk. What Gints Zilbalodis and his team created is… 原文連結 ↗

Sometimes the simplest yet most profound messages we can receive come from the unlikeliest of sources. So it is with the second animated feature from writer-director Gints Zilbalodis, a stunningly beautiful, inspiringly insightful odyssey about a band of animals seeking to find their way and survive in a new world. When a great flood essentially destroys the world of man, a wide-eyed black cat must figure out how to get by when this consuming deluge wipes out the existence he has known, armed with only his own wits and the cooperation of fellow animal kindreds, including a capybara, a meerkat, a secretary bird and a pack of dogs, most notably a yellow Labrador retriever. Together this band… 原文連結 ↗