Sprite Fright - Blender Open Movie

[Rated PG] - Produced by Blender Studio. Made with Blender.

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Blender Studio’s 13th open movie is an 80’s-inspired horror comedy, set in Britain: When a group of rowdy teenagers trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.

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.

[BlenderStudio]

This film was made possible thanks to the Blender Studio supporters ❤️

[miilexthemii]

How they made horror aspects with a cutesy artstyle, keeping it even when it get intense, making it violent even though there minimal amount of blood and it still unnerving despite it; is the most impressive thing i have ever seen in a story ever!

[logananimationstudios]

I'm actually liking the design of Ellie who survived at the end of the movie her design looks so good and it's pretty cute.

[trashchief]

I love how this story turned from respecting nature to mushroom smurfs committing war crimes within one minute.

[DGhostLad]

The absolute genius of showing how awful what we do to nature is by flipping human destruction back on humans in weird disgusting deaths is so interesting

[zackland]

I just realized that exactly at 1:50 they say that she wouldn't survive five minutes alone, but litreally exactly five minutes later in the animation 6:50, everyone except her died.
The attention to detail is crazy

[Salithin]

“Oh, what a cool Nature movie”
“Oh, it’s about saving the environment”
“Oh, it’s about fungus creatures”
“Oh, it’s about *murder* “

[kardamonn]

This animation serves as a great reminder that animation isn’t a Genere, but an Art form and it can be any Genre.

[gydeon]

Notice how Ellie is the only one that doesn't immediately resort to a more violent approach of defending herself because she still respects nature and even states that she doesn't want to hurt them and resorts to using violence only when they still attack after she says she doesn't want to hurt them. This is an interesting plot, a full movie would be awesome!

[solomonk]

I realise the boombox guy is a bit of an outlier because he hid so we didn’t see how he would have tried to defend himself, but I like that in the chase scenes from 5:10 to 6:00, all the others are very quick to physically attack the creatures (spraying them with hairspray, hitting them with a bat, etc) while Ellie escapes in ways that don’t directly injure them, like choosing to cut herself free by her hair instead of trying to cut one of the sprites, as the others no doubt would have in her position. I think it really shows her character that even in such a situation her first instinct isn’t to see them as the enemy, and then she only attacks them when she’s completely cornered— and even then, she warns them first.

[KyleAllenMusic]

Man, I'd kill to make music for these! They're absolutely beautiful!

[castle_siege]

I love the detail where each of the characters death correlates to how they treated nature

[raj_a]

I like the detail that every camper dies the way they were hurting the environment! Just goes to show how dedicated the team behind Blender is.

The first blue guy steps on a snail at 0:25, then is killed by snails at 6:30.
The hair girl sprays her hairspray at a spider at 1:26, then is killed by spiders at 6:12.
The Boombox guy pees on a ladybug at 1:49, then is killed by pee at 6:36.
And finally, the barbeque guy kills a butterfly with fire that turns green at 1:29, and then is burnt by fire that flashes green at 4:37.

Very cool part of the already mind blowing animation!

[thzmyint]

I didn't expect that with these friendly looking characters models someone could make an actual horrifying horror movie.

[IAmEvilTree]

Finally an animation that portrays Human-Fae interactions accurately.

[legome]

beginning: "aw that snail is so sweet!"

5 seconds later: *well that escalated quickly*

[Anonymous-eij]

"She wouldn't survive five minutes in this woods"

*Literally the only one who survives*

[StickyCerealStudios]

The fact that they didn’t kidnap the scout looking girl, only because she treated nature with complete respect

[_icey]

I love how the description says "Rated PG."

This movie should teach people that if it's an animation that doesn't mean it's family friendly.

[PSDavison]

I’m so glad Ellie was the lone survivor since she was the most likable out of the human characters and I could see her in a future sequle of this if we even get one (we likely won’t but it would be cool)