{"id":6981,"date":"2025-03-06T21:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2025-03-06T21:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:39:14","slug":"oscar-winner-flow-used-open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2025\/03\/06\/oscar-winner-flow-used-open-source-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar winner Flow used open source software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_6981 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_6981')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_6981').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. 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His internationally acclaimed animated film premiered at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.festivaldufilm.fr\">Cannes film festival<\/a> and was awarded Best Animated Film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. It also beat other animated productions at the European Film Awards, the Golden Globes and the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZgZccxuj2RY?si=n50t9f_wEdBuZTbd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/boot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6983 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/boot-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/boot-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/boot-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/boot-630x395.jpg 630w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/boot.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t want to make dystopian films or realistic dramas with the usual settings. I can invent beautiful natural places or combine elements of real landscapes,&quot; explains Gints Zilbalodis. &quot;I don&#8217;t just use these natural settings as a background for my films, but they become part of the storytelling, an integral part of the story.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the filmmaker, it was clear that the story in<em> Flow<\/em> could only be told as an animated film because of the animals and the camera movements. In <em>Flow<\/em>, the flood causes a lot of devastation. &quot;Maybe the flood acts as a kind of villain at first, but the animals learn to appreciate the beauty of the flooded areas as the water makes more and more of the world disappear,&quot; says the filmmaker. This natural disaster is also something you don&#8217;t have to explain to an audience. Everyone knows something like this.&quot; He deliberately avoided making the animals behave or think like humans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Gints.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6984\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Gints-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Gints-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Gints.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>For the production of <em>Flow<\/em>, Gints Zilbalodis used the free animation software Blender &quot;A big advantage of Blender is that it is linked to the real-time rendering software Eevee. Blender and Eevee have allowed me to create many variations, try different camera angles and quickly render the shot to see if it works or not,&quot; explains the animation artist. &quot;Blender is also good because we can customize a lot. We created a lot of custom tools for <em>Flow<\/em>. There were some very talented technicians on the team who created special tools for the film that we could customize whenever we wanted.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Fahrt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6982\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Fahrt-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Fahrt-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Fahrt-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Fahrt-630x374.jpg 630w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Fahrt.jpg 953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>Produced as a French-Belgian-Latvian co-production with the support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arte.com\">ARTE<\/a>, Flow already attracted over 350,000 moviegoers in France. in Latvia we did most of the things. The pre-production of Flow as well as the editing, the animatic, the concept art, the post-production, the lighting, the modeling, the colors, and music took place in Latvia, while the sound and the character animation were done in France and Belgium. \u201cI don&#8217;t want to work with a huge studio\u201d, emphasizes Gints Zilbalodis, \u201cbecause I think with a smaller independent project we can tell more personal stories and tell them with more creative techniques and looks and cinematic languages so I want to kind of stay in this independent world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FlT1t1uTPaU?si=A0UCedQQ3fHmAKsQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: \u00a9 MFA+ Distribution<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With his Oscar-winning animated film Flow, Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis presents a great cinematic experience in which he lets various animals drift through beautiful water worlds on an old sailing boat. 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