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Are any of these good as films? As in, something I should strongly consider watching on its own merits rather than because of how it was produced and distributed?

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I also don't think you should strongly consider watching any of them (and this is coming from a Blender fan), but they're all short films so if you have a few minutes to kill you may as well try watching one.

I personally thought Sprite Fright was a fun watch (10m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cMxraX_5RE

I love Blender and the Blender animation studio, but no, not really. There is a quite good movie that's been made entirely in Blender though, NEXT GEN on Netflix. It's a kids movie, if you liked Big Hero 6 you'll probably like it. They even did the video compositing in Blender, which is... pretty insane from my perspective. But the quality of the end product speaks for itself.

Also worth watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_and_the_Three which looks very pretty.

Compositing is pretty straight forward compared to the video editor(was/is?)!

Video editing is what I meant, brain fart.

The Next Gen folks also presented everything about the production process at Blender Conference 2018 and hanged around to talk with us Blender nerds! Fun to see the actual process behind real, released films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn3kCsw5D8

IRON SKY (2018) was partially made on Blender.

"They even did the video compositing in Blender, which is... pretty insane from my perspective."

Can you elaborate? What features are missing there for professional use? I used it for a simple video and it worked, but was not that intuitive.

No OFX plugins. And time I used the compositor, comparatively abysmal performance. Although there's a new, accelerated viewport compositor thing since then, not sure if the regular compositor's also faster.

Sintel is worth watching. I believe it's also the longest one at about 15 minutes.

I loved Cosmos Laundromat, personally. Even though it didn't end up being the full feature it was supposed to. Some of the others were pretty decent, but that was the standout for me.

Big Buck Bunny is very funny, and Sintel is a cute story with a nice little song at the end.

I'd recommend Sprite Fight, Coffee Run, Sintel (in that order).

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