CHARGE - Blender Open Movie 

This all started with a cube in middle 😢

It's so cool knowing that the film was done entirely using free software anyone can download

This short movie deserves a place in Netflix's Love, Death, Robots next season.

I don't know about anyone else, but the two hardest parts of animation for me are convincing sense of scale, and a convincing sense of weight. This short absolutely nailed both. The world feels large... the spaces, even tiny rooms, feel like spaces. And when things hit, they look like they hit and conveyed force. Great story extremely well executed and beautifully rendered.

One day Blender really needs to make a full animated movie (It would be so good!)

As a professional from same industry often I am led away into details of technicalities, but while watching Charge I was absolutely hooked and really enjoyed it. It's not easy to put together a good action sequence edit; this was really well done. Love the Sound, Designs, Animations. For some reason this brought many memories from early 2000 good animation films. Good blend of stylization and realism in animation and visuals. This could easily pass for Love Death Robot episode; I mean it as compliment. Congratulations to Blender Studio Team and Everyone who worked on this. 👏👏👏

I think the greatest achievement of this film, is that it is all rendered in Eevee, the real time renderer. Amazing work!

Has to be the most heart warming thing ever. This animation shows that people will do anything to keep there loved ones alive no matter what is thrown at them, this animation captures that message perfect and made me shed a tear when I found out he was just trying to save his wife

Maybe it's too fast paced, but the storytaling in every minor detail is astonishing Love that mechanical "What?" at 0:56

3:08 Honestly, the end credits sequence and this short film as a whole are next-level stuff. Hoping that the soundtrack to this masterpiece gets released soon...

No words were said, but the emotions was felt. Epic storytelling!

Simple story, well executed. Not a dull moment, lovely!

That ending... All to keep his wife still alive... Perfect. ♥

Blender never ceases to amaze. This company deserves so much credit.

I just can't believe this was all made in blender... and can't imagine how much time was put into this 4 minutes movie. Can I tell you how much I was excited when the security bot transformed at 1:42!? That design is fricking cool! So beautiful, I love it!!

That was Epic! I really enjoyed the "behind the scenes" at the very end.

This was just fire 🔥🔥🔥 Perfect for a Love Death & Robot Episode 👍

just watched that movies that you made 10 years ago and i will say THIS IS AMAZING

Although the movie has no words in it, the old man spoke to us with his heart.

The fact that everything is done in Blender is really admirable

That Blender timeline for the edit that appears in the credits was pretty impressive. Well done guys. Thank you for all your hard work both artists and devs.

The fact that this was rendered in EEVEE is mind blowing

This was awesome! I love the transformation at 1:43! Was totally unexpected and was definitely a stand out moment. Metroid Dread vibes for sure with that style of robot design and sense of indestructibility.

As a Blender student I've lost the count of times i have watched this , thank you , you really inspire me

This almost made me cry. I don’t cry at films very often. This needs to be a full movie. I would watch it.

Awesome!!!! This is Next Level Stuff, From Story to Performances . Kudos to the team!!! Thanks for the BTS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is Fantastic!!! 😍😍😍

Really proud to be part of the awesome Blender community and family

Absolutely beautiful movie. Just proves that we can have all the bells and whistles of software, motion capture, rendering, VFX, etc. but it means nothing if you can't use it to tell a damn good story. This was a damn good story.

Love the little Easter egg referencing missing textures in the form of a pink colour on the side of the spray can. 1:15 'After using, check carefully for missing textures on your body.' 🤣

I dream of the day when awards are given to short films made in Blender, ""The Blender Awards"". 🏆

1:38 Oh man he got me, time to disengage the arm and swap hands

Every single frame is a masterpiece on its own. Simply can't love blender enough.

Dude, Blenders open movie just keep getting better and better. They've come so far since Elephants Dream. Great job everyone

I fin it funny how huge companies spend thousands to pump out the worst content yet, with this, effectively anyone , with the time and skill can create masterpieces like this.

4 Perfect minutes to tell a simple but engaging story. Really, really nice work.

AWESOME, and all in EEVEE openGL renderer! KUDOS to all of you my friends! It is so immersive that I instantly WAS there, everything was so well done. That poverty, that hi-tech corp factory, and an unique style of Hjalti animation... SOOOO nice! This easily may be the prequel to WALLE. I wish you guys happy new year and a good reception by all critics all over the world. That work on a movie was hard as always, but behind the scenes - also big thank you to all, who contributed to Blender and it's development. Very convincing hairs, particles, fog, smoke, sparks, etc. Tasty ambient, touchable dirt, semi-realism, all well balanced. You all are a REAL ARTISTS! :) And imagine... all you have at start is just a simple default cube!

I need an extended version of the behind the scenes, it's amazing to see all the work that goes behind a project like this!

This is hands down one of the best short films I've seen. everything about this is so insanely mind blowing. the fact you can do all of this in Blender! I've my utmost respect for the creators of Blender and this animation, This was literally incredible on so many levels.

blender... the future of animators

You guys did an astounding job!!! This is such an inspiration! 😃 This is how short films should be. No second is wasted, clear storytelling, exciting, suspenseful and with an emotional hook. Bravo!!!

This is AWESOME! I love Sci-Fi Stuff. 👍‍ Great work!!

Damn every animated movie by blender increases my urge to learn All about 3D because they are all sooo gooood

there are no words to describe the beauty of this short, i am simply stating my love

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. and Blender Team is proving it. All the best guys

The biggest inspiration of all is that they appareantly made this in eevee based on the behind the scenes footage. That's amazing!

its only after you try to make one single tree in blender that you can truly appreciate the hard work and dedication in this movie. With that said, this is just A. W. E. S. O. M. E. .

Truly masterfully created.. I was focusing more on the story than on how it was made.. Blender has truly come of age and is a true force to be reckoned with! Congratulations! (and as always, thanks for keeping it Open Source, Ton.. you're the true hero of this story!!1)

this is so UNREAL from Blender Eevee!! this scene 2:58 (also very realistic! i thought i was watching a real life movie) is very beautiful emotionally and visually!! the tears really i can feel the sadness from him! WELL DONE!

Wow, 🤩This is so sick 🔥🔥 can't imagine how many hours it took you guys to model and texture, and animate this masterpiece.

This is by far the best short movie I've ever seen! It was so creative and entertaining. The visuals were stunning and the story was captivating. Highly recommended!

I really loved the ending scene. It's so peaceful.

This is absolutely beyond words. I was expecting it to be great, but the Blender teams has exceeded my already high expectations. Blender is the best 3D software I've ever used and I'll continue to use it as it evolves for years to come.

"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." -Sun Tzu: The Art of War

CHARGING COMPLETED. Hats off to everyone who works for this great animation.

Liked the thumb movement at last. Seemed so natural

I will always be a EEVEE fan! It really boosted the speed of learning Blender with my potato PC that struggled with Cycles. And the fact that this awesome short is made with it also proves that it's a very powerful engine in the right hands! Cheers!

I tend to regularly regret my path of becoming a cg pro because I always make meaningless props and random assets. Movies like this remind me what I came for and why I shouldn't give up on my career.

Hats off to the Gigachad team responsible for this, beautiful.

The behind the scenes was really cool. Blender has really come far man

Mind blowing... The level of detail is incredible. This was 'Love, Death and Robots' worthy. It's inevitable that Blender will become industry-standard.

Sometimes it amazes me how 🤔 graphics have reached to this level. When I close my 👀 and think about how those 2-d matrices of pixels have changed to this masterpiece. Kudos to makers, musicians, graphics softwares and their engineers, mathematicians and graphic lovers, gamers who have made this possible.

This is Fire 🔥🔥 literally encourages me to make projects with blender like these thank you so much blender for inspiring thousands to achieve their success in careers.

I love how the main character used his mechanical hand as a drill when the droid broke it. A sweet touch to the action!

This is their best short film yet!! They just keep getting better and better. ❤️

I am an absolute sucker for technological design in films, games, artwork, etc. Absolutely nailed the design of the machines in this film, its a complete masterpiece to just look at, and oh my god, I think my favorite parts were when the mechanical arm tried to take the power cell back from the protag, and the way it looked at him inquisitively before setting off the alarm reminded my of Wall-E. Other favorite was 1:42 when the security bot detaches its weapon and relocates its other arms for hand-to-hand combat, its so creatively sophisticated. Absolutely incredible.

omg, production files are very useful. nice open movie. thanks all guys who worked on this project

I am happy that all of you motion artists are excited with production. I am crying here for the last 10 minutes as I am convinced this is his wifes' brain in that droid...

So much to say about this! Firstly I wish I could thumbs this up more than once! Unknowningly Blender and it's dev team are pushing the boundaries of not only their own software, which mind you, is free and open sourced, they are pushing the boundaries of 3D software and animation! It's absolutely remarkable what they've done, which is also made in evee! As a 3d artist, game developer and graphic designer myself, I can say this, this inspires me, it encourages and makes me appreciate all the work that went into this. I pray that this team and dev team behind blender gets blessed! Blender is like the Einstein in 3D software of our time! Keep it up, and i hope this doesn't stop! Thank you for this 4 minute experience! Kind Regards and Love - Keagan Collins

I love this community. Thank you to blender studio for giving us such a phenomenal software and constantly improving it. You have allowed many people to look into the beauty of art and give hope that someday they too will be able to produce pieces like these. Lastly, the creators of this piece, phenomenal overall project with fantastic attention to details and boy that timeline at the end looked clean, congrats.

A true friend will have no boundaries and do what others will not. They are rare to almost non existent.

Elderly men that'll go through hell and back for a loved one has got to be my favorite trope!

Damn... That felt like a Love Death Robots short film. All done in Blender. Well done.

HOLY CRAP this is the best one so far

Wow, this F'd me up in the greatest way. I didn't expect that ending. The creativity in every frame is off the charts. That truly didn't need to be any shorter or any longer in length. Perfection.

The fact that anyone can do this for free in Blender, even someone as dumb as me, is mindblowing! This video makes me want to learn blender.

Amazing, amazing, amazing!!! Congrats Hjalti and team!

Love the ending!

The amount of heart in this story and the drive to finish entirely is all together and by itself a completed and perfect masterpiece. Thank you for all the time you put into this

To join the deserved chorus of praise in the comments: excellent work, Team Blender!

This is genuinely so impressive! Massive props to everyone who worked on this movie!

AWESOME in every aspect, art direction, production, sound design, animation, it deserves an Oscar 🔥🔥

never been this proud with blender comunity

Idk there is just such a special touch to the whole feel of the short film that he takes the folding chair and makes sure his wife is comfortable even though logically speaking there seems like there is no sense in it. 2:31

You don't often get a movie staring an old man in animation, much less an old man fighting convincingly. What I loved most about this film is that the main character is so obviously old. He hesitates a lot when dealing with newer tech and uses old means to get to the battery. He uses wrenches for the gate lock, spray paint for the cameras, a blowgun for the security guard, a simple car jack for the door, a pipe for the last door, and a monkey wrench to fight a security robot. When he fights, you can see that he was once a very dangerous man. He is very creative with his solutions; he blinds it with a can of spray paint, attacks the gun first since it's the biggest problem, he shoves the gun under the press to crush it, and he uses the remnants of his arm as a drill. He clearly had to fight and scavenge to survive in his youth. But now he is old. He can barely take a hit and he's barely quick enough to avoid the robot's punches, he's clearly scared and uncomfortable around all the new tech; he hesitates before he grabs the battery, has to think for a moment before grabbing the throwing the spray paint, hesitates after he checks on the battery and leaves. Even when he finishes off the robot, his final expression is of a man whose unsure he's going to make it. He's just an old man who wants more time with what's left of his wife, and that's why this speaks so much to me. An old man doing all he can with what he has to be with his beloved wife. He didn't have much, but it got the job done and that's all that mattered.

WOAUH! the music is good and inspiring, the 3d graphics are excellent, the story is better than all the great Blender projects! Just.... Wow ! I have no words to describe this masterpiece !

Fantastic! Perfect story arc, great emotion, amazing modeling. Well done

Are you kidding me. This was outstanding.

Great Story & Amazing Visuals to see ! One day blender will make its first full Animation movie! ❤️

A lil tear for what can be achieved with this great software and a big tear for that sweet storytelling. Never forget that a tool is never as good as the hand that handles it, and you guys know how to use your tools to tell a nice story. Keep up with the good work, my fellow humans !

Everyone who made this is amazing.

Awesome! Thanks to all who made this possible :)

00:29 LockpickingLawyer is proud

I can see, he is becoming powerful day by day,... It's not so long when blender will match industry level softwares😎😎... Proud of you blender

This is the reason I keep going back to blender! I'm purely amazed at all the things it can do while still being open source! Excellent short video! I was really hooked! May God bless the Blender team!

What a beautiful story!

This amazing, never felt so proud to be a Blender user!!!

Wtf ...this was so realistic man I just got love death and robots vibe Great work blender studio ♥️♥️

Holy Cow! This is amazing! The creators did such an awesome job, The story line is unexpected and the mechanics and physics of the robots is super creative.

bro this is perfect, everytime you blink you miss an entire month of work in blender.. very very detailed