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by wrs 465 days ago
A million dollars of CGI didn’t go as far in 2005 as it does now!
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owlninja 465 days ago
And we wouldn't be talking about it 20 years later :)
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jerf 465 days ago
In 2025 this is something a casual YouTuber could do, or could be assigned as a school project. All the pieces are there now. You wouldn't even need to pay for anything, I don't think. Blender should be able to do everything you need, quite comfortably. Getting data from the world back into the special effects software has gotten magnitudes easier since then.
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1-more 464 days ago
> Blender should be able to do everything you need, quite comfortably.

Hell, Blender just made a movie that won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2024_film)

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