Cheers @mkennedy@mkennedy & @brianokken@brianokken , listening late to @pythonbytes@pythonbytes episode 446, great as usual!
Listening to the JetBrains survey thing I always worry about the sampling bias⌠All the cool scientists using Python, all the journalists doing data journalism, the urban planners and geospace people, the blender people, the people doing movie post-production pipelines, all the hobbyists⌠I think the survey doesnât reach or represent a large chunk of Python users.
Thatâs pretty darn neat, the little indie movie (âFlowâ) made in Blender beat out some Disney/Pixar heavyweights. I actually watched it a month or so ago, nice little movie. Itâs not the highest detailed animation or anything, but it has a style that it makes work.
Blender-Rendered Movie âFlowâ Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar
Itâs a feature-length film ârendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,â reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks.
In January Blender.org called Flow âthe manifestation of Blenderâs mission, ⌠â Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club - Elephants Dream https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/06/20/dream.html #freeculture #bookclub #blender