Anyone mourning the poignant, meaningful feeling from Team Ico needs to check out Flow, the Oscar-winning film that beat Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot

When I was ushered into a private screening of Flow, the animated Latvian adventure film created entirely in the free and open-source software, Blender, I was not expecting to come out of the cinema thinking of nothing but Team Ico and Fumito Ueda. I went into the film completely blind: all that I knew was that Flow had won an Oscar for best animated feature (pipping both The Wild Robot and Inside Out 2 to the post), and was completely dialogue-free. Read more

Mar 19, 2025 - 16:42

Anyone mourning the poignant, meaningful feeling from Team Ico needs to check out Flow, the Oscar-winning film that beat Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot

When I was ushered into a private screening of Flow, the animated Latvian adventure film created entirely in the free and open-source software, Blender, I was not expecting to come out of the cinema thinking of nothing but Team Ico and Fumito Ueda. I went into the film completely blind: all that I knew was that Flow had won an Oscar for best animated feature (pipping both The Wild Robot and Inside Out 2 to the post), and was completely dialogue-free.