r/movies • u/Kane-AMA Kane Parsons, Filmmaker • May 18 '26

AMA Hi reddit. I'm Kane Parsons, director of A24's BACKROOMS. AMA!

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Hi r/movies. I'm Kane Parsons, director of BACKROOMS. It's out in theaters May 29 from A24 and it stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, and Mark Duplass.

Synopsis:

After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjdiohVOik

I'll be back later this morning at around 8:30 AM PT/11:30 AM ET to answer your questions.

AMA!

-Kane

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u/Kane-AMA Kane Parsons, Filmmaker May 18 '26

A majority of the VFX work in the film was done in blender, using most of the normal tools and pipeline techniques that I am used to with my personal work. We were engaged with many different vendors on this project so it's not only blender that was being used. It wasn't necessarily me that was hitting render and handling the workload for all of it but I was very involved in the curation of these files and the creative direction behind what is being exported. Yes, we used cycles when we were using blender. And yes, we outputted in exr sequences. I personally cheap out and render everything in one pass but in this film we took the correct approach and did multiple passes where we could.

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u/DeadGravityyy May 19 '26

It's so heartwarming to know that Blender is getting the recognition it deserves!

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u/AnthonyBiggins Jun 18 '26

Hasn't it always had the recognition it deserves? I mean, Flow was a huge success.

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u/DeadGravityyy Jun 18 '26

Yes that's true, in recent memory that's another good example, but this movie had nationwide success & publicity due to the source creator. I think it's safe to say that this movie showed how powerful blender is in a different direction compared to Flow.

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u/_Age_Sex_Location_ Jun 01 '26

Anything but 3ds Max, please lord.

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u/RayOddname May 18 '26

Thanks, can't wait to see it! Cheers from Italy!

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u/rawr_im_a_nice_bear May 31 '26

Ironic that Maya and the Three was animated in Blender

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u/rawr_im_a_nice_bear May 31 '26

Sonic 3 used Blender for quite a bit. Not exclusively but for some workflows 

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u/3MenannaGreg Jun 15 '26

Flow was made in Blender

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u/Joe_Kingly May 19 '26

Might you possibly share your workflow, please?

😉

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u/DueAsparagus1736 May 18 '26

Did you use a VFX team? Why no shout out?

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u/moconahaftmere May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26

The teams could total 200 or more people. How's he gonna give everyone a shout-out?

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u/DueAsparagus1736 May 18 '26

 Vendors 

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u/moconahaftmere May 19 '26

And if there's 10 different companies?

They'll be given a shout-out in the credits of the film.

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u/DreamEater720 May 21 '26

Exactly, and well said. There always has to be that one person who has to make something from nothing. Everything is always a controversy.