A Free App Beat Pixar's $200M Movie at the Oscars | Blender

A film made in Blender, a free app, won the 2025 Oscar for Best Animated Feature over Pixar's $200 million Inside Out 2. Flow cost about €3.5 million.

Blender costs nothing, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, and an AI assistant like Claude can now work inside it through Blender's own official MCP server.

Watch the full video: what Blender can do, who pays for it, how to get it, and what AI can and can't do with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUEJVIT5fNE

Footage: Charge, Singularity, Wing It!, Big Buck Bunny and Caminandes: Gran Dillama, © Blender Foundation / Blender Studio, licensed CC BY (studio.blender.org).
Narration is an AI voice.

Sources:
Flow (2024 film) and 97th Academy Awards, Wikipedia
Inside Out 2 budget, Wikipedia
blender.org/download
blender.org/lab/mcp-server

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