<ul><li>This year at USA’s Academy Awards, the award for best animated feature went to Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, an open-source animated film created on a fractional budget.</li><li>Gints Zilbalodis’ victory marks the first time an independent film not produced by a major studio has won the Oscar for best animated feature.</li><li>Zilbalodis recounts his experience of using Blender, an open-source 3D creation software, and how it provided him with greater control and efficiency in his workflow.</li><li>The film, Flow, tells the story of a cat and its friends navigating a world of apocalyptic flooding.</li></ul>

And the Oscar goes to… Blender

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