What are visual effects? Can they ever love us back? Nearly ten years ago, Ian Hubert turned up on YouTube with a science fiction web series called Dynamo. To us old-fashioned narrative peeps, the episode looks like a mess. Turn it off when your head hurts.
From its open-source base, Blender has been trying to complete a proof-of-concept feature film for at least a decade. It seems to have three stuck in limbo, but the story of Ian Hubert and his evolving web series titles shows you just how close they are. He has come much further than Dynamo.
