LOS ANGELES — The independent film "Flow" won the best animated feature film at the 2025 ... The movie stood out in 2024, having been rendered on a free and open-source software platform called ...

One of the surprises of the awards season is Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” — the ... best independent animated feature and one for writing. The film was made with free open-source software ...

“Flow” was made with Blender, a free, open-source graphics software tool using computer generated animation. The result is a dreamy aesthetic paired with a peaceful, yet post ...

Conceived as a dialogue-free, surreal adventure story about a boy and an injured bird, Zilbalodis wrote, directed, scored, and animated the film using Maya. With Flow, he’s no longer working ...