Blender Studio’s lead animator talks about the influence of video games and changing sources of inspiration

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Audiences continued to defy the critics in 2025, with two widely panned films – A Minecraft Movie and the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch – dominating the box office. Here are some of the films the critics did like, a few of which were also commercial hits

ALL THE ESSENTIAL INTEL, FROM HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND

I like to think of us – readers, writers, suppliers – as all being jolly serious folk. No room for RGB bling, don’t even whisper the word “gaming”. We all want to look like we’re making impactful deci