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A small black cat on a floating raft watched by a capybara and a lemur at dusk.

Flow: Zilbalodis and the Wordless Feature

Gints Zilbalodis made a dialogue-free animated feature in Blender with a team of a dozen, won the Oscar, and put the Latvian film industry on the global animation map. The patient argument is that the form, not the novelty, is the achievement.

Priya Nair·4 Sep·6 min

A small black cat balanced on a floating tree branch in bright water, light catching the ripples.

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Flow and the Case Against Animated Dialogue

A Latvian animated feature made on Blender with a team of fifteen people won the Oscar and beat DreamWorks, Pixar, and Netflix. The reason is not budget. It is silence.

Jules Okonkwo·21 Aug·6 min