Blender Studio seeks seven thousand subscribers for its first animated feature film

Published on July 11, 2026 | Translated from Spanish

Blender Studio, known for its open-source short films, is launching its first animated feature: Overgrown. The project will share the entire process and tools for free, allowing young creators to learn how to make movies without paying for expensive software. To make this possible, they need to gather 7,000 subscribers on their platform. An initiative that seeks to democratize animated cinema, benefiting both artists and viewers.

Blender 3D modeling interface floating in a dark digital workspace, animated tree branches growing from a wireframe sphere while a film clapperboard hovers nearby, open source code streaming across the screen as young artists observe from below, cinematic technical illustration style, glowing orange and blue neon accents on the Blender logo, transparent nodes connecting to a film reel, process of creation visible with motion lines showing asset evolution, photorealistic lighting with volumetric rays, ultra-detailed textures on the digital tools, dramatic atmosphere of innovation

Open source and shared resources for independent cinema 🎬

Overgrown will be developed entirely with Blender, a free software. The studio plans to publish tutorials, project files, and production pipelines in real time. This allows anyone, from a student to a hobbyist, to replicate the workflow of a professional studio. The goal is to lower the economic barrier that prevents many talents from accessing tools like Maya or Houdini. Without monthly subscriptions or expensive licenses, the only limit is imagination and available hardware.

The drama of asking for 7,000 friends to make a movie 🍕

So, to make Overgrown, Blender Studio needs 7,000 people to say: yes, I want to see this. It's like asking your entire neighborhood to lend you the projector and screen, but on the internet. If they don't get it, the project goes on hold. Meanwhile, at home, a creator with a modest GPU is already modeling a character, hoping the community meets the goal. The moral: even free software needs someone to pay for the pizza.