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Look, I am in no way trying to diminish work developers put in Blender. It is great product. I saw videos made in Blender that looks way better than Flow from the tech point of view.

My point was that the value of Flow is in its story, both written and visual and far overshadows any technical aspect. Avatar for example is totally opposite from that point of view in my opinion. Great graphics and absolutely meh, story.

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And the value of Blender (or any 3D rendering software) is not only the fidelity of the rendered result, but the tools it gives artists to transform their vision into something that can be rendered by a computer.

The point is that this amazing story could be produced, as a finished movie, by a team that only needed to raise about $3M. Precisely how much of that is because they used Blender is still not clear to me, but the importance of Blender's use here is that it opens the door to equivalently great (or even better!) story telling on (relatively) low budgets ($3M is still a lot to raise, it seems to me). This story would never have been made if it needed $30M or $300M to make.

>" but the importance of Blender's use here is that it opens the door to equivalently great (or even better!) story telling on (relatively) low budgets"

I agree that what they have achieved for "only $3M" is nothing but amazing. I have no idea how much money was saved by using Blender.

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