CHARGE - Blender Open Movie

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In an energy-scarce dystopia, an old destitute man breaks into a battery factory but soon finds himself confronted by a deadly security droid and no way out.

Blender Studio is the creative part of the Blender HQ. A dedicated team of artists and developers challenge themselves with creative-technical targets to help Blender users and to drive Blender development forward. This happens in an open source production environment and by sharing everything they make in an open and free license.

[shortfilmstudios]

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

[rabbi.rahman]

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

[mycroft]

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.

[EPICMAN_D]

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

[dustloaf]

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

[Camad]

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

[CrossMindStudio]

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. 👏👏👏

[jimmac]

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

[FactsBySheikh]

This all started with a cube in middle 😢

[kyounokuma]

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.

[JaredOwen]

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

[COLOREDLESS.]

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

[marcusunivers]

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

[highfiveanimations]

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...

[gerichkyon]

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

[dauehausdaue]

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

[automatedfigment]

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!!

[ROBBERCHIEF]

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.' 🤣

[theAlphatron]

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.

[ulrohermit]

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