Miss B posted at 12:48AM Tue, 26 May 2020 - #4390212

LuxXeon posted at 11:33PM Mon, 25 May 2020 - #4390209

Blender has finally caught the attention of the professional studios now, and so donations in the millions of dollars have been pouring in from really huge names in the industry.

WOW, now THAT's very interesting Lux. Thanks for letting us know.

It's certainly exciting times. It all started with Epic Games awarding the Blender Foundation a $1.2 million cash development grant last year. Then Ubisoft made their move, contributing over $2,700 per month to the development of Blender 2.8x, calling it a "gamechanger in the CG industry". Then another big patron came in, and this one may eventually change things on a technical level more than anything else; Nvidia has made a very significant contribution. They won't say exactly how much, but we know they've made patronage donations of around $10.000 per month.

So development funding has really approached levels of large corporate entities now. I'm not sure how much funding goes into Maya or 3dsmax development each year, but I'd be surprised if it far exceeded the Blender patronage and donations for 2019.

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