Flow, which the self-taught director made for $3.5m, beat Pixar and DreamWorks to take the Academy Award for best animated ...

At any rate, more flooding occurs and the cat eventually finds itself in a sailing boat with a lolloping Labrador, a superior ...

Since being introduced in 2002, the Best Animated Feature category has been dominated by Pixar, who have won an astonishing 11 times; during their noughties heyday, the studio won four years in a ...

Flow' is a complete triumph for the crew, Latvia, cute little critters, animated movies and the art of filmmaking as a whole.

In this dialogue-free cat's-eye view of a world after humans, a boatload of animals squabble and scamper but learn to survive as a makeshift family.

There is a book on animation filled with essays entitled Illusion of Life. The illusion is when a drawing comes to life, and therein lies animation’s ...

Mike Leigh’s latest domestic drama is brutal and caustically funny, while two films about cats offer insights into how we ...

While Flow's world — which was animated using the free online 3D software Blender — is rendered with ... DreamWorks or Pixar got anywhere near Flow's sense of wonder or imagination ...

Despite facing competition from major animated sequels, indie film Flow won an Oscar and proved its box office strength, grossing USD 36M worldwide on a modest USD 3.7M budget.

Taking five and a half years to make, Flow originates from Latvia, where co-writer and director Gints Zilbalodis and his team animated the entire film on the open source program Blender.

But it is, arguably, the biggest news for Blender, a free and open-source software ... we often see films largely dominated by studios like Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks. These films are multi ...