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Short film: Hept (survival horror)

May 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you ever wondered why some characters in survival horror have survived so long? I’m asking because it’s a mean thing, yet I do it.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, blender, monsters, short film

Short film: Spring

April 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We follow a shepherd girl and her dog as she has the ancient and dangerous task of dealing with spirits to bring spring to her valley.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: blender, short film

Tears of Steel

October 2, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This is a test movie – but well worth a watch. At 12 minutes long it manges to tell a complete story. The goal of the project is to “test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film”. It was created with the free and open source Blender software. There have been […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: blender, mecha, sci-fi

Check out the official Project London trailer

October 20, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Project London is an indie sci-fi film. It’s made by volunteers and there’s been almost no budget. Heck, you can see their funds and donate if you wish at their IndieGogo page. You can see how much money they need. The movie makes use of the open source Blender software to do 3D animations. Blender […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: blender, trailers

Sintel: Sad but independent and beautiful

October 21, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sintel is an independent short film. It’s an animation that makes use of the open source (free) 3D Blender software. The film itself was funded by 1000s of donations from the internet. Seen it? It’s certainly deserves to be on every geek’s watch list and it’s only about 15 minutes long. The premier was in […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: blender, dragons

Pandora Machine’s Clone Hunter

July 21, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Three months ago the trailer for Clone Hunter appeared on Vimeo. It’s one of those trailers that goes straight for the sci-fi fan levers, getting your interest quickly while doing a pretty good job at not looking low budget. For example, seconds into the video we know that in the future they’re growing clones for […]

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: blender, sci-fi, trailers

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