A girl pedals through a flat blue world with an octopus in her basket — and every line of it is a Grease Pencil stroke drawn in 3D space. “Bike Ride” by dedouze is the scene that showed thousands of artists that Blender can be a 2D animation tool without giving up a 3D camera.
NPR renders like this are deceptively light per frame but come in long sequences — the network chews through them frame-by-frame across whatever machines are online. 209 frames at 4K came back in one pass.
Rendered on OmnibusCloud as part of our launch showcase.