Sunday, 18 Oct, 2026

The Pastel Petri Dish: How Julian Glander’s ‘Boys Go to Jupiter’ Redefines Indie Animation on a MacBook

While high-profile triumphs like Gints Zilbalodis’s Academy Award-winning Flow have recently cemented the open-source 3D software Blender as a powerhouse for sweeping, human-free cinematic worlds, a wildly different kind of digital revolution is quietly taking shape at the other end of the aesthetic spectrum. Enter director Julian Glander’s Boys Go to Jupiter, a vaporwave-tinted, poignantly […]

Vaporwave in the Swamps: How Julian Glander Built an Indie Animated Feature on a MacBook Using Blender

While the global animation landscape has recently celebrated breathtaking, human-free triumphs like Gints Zilbalodis’s Oscar-winning Best Animated Film Flow—crafted by a Latvian team using the free, open-source 3D creation suite Blender—an entirely different aesthetic and narrative spectrum of Blender-based filmmaking has been quietly fermenting. Enter director Julian Glander and his vaporwave coming-of-age feature, Boys Go […]