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Blender Foundation’s 2024 Fundraiser: Join the 2 Percent

Bart — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:51:36 +0000

The Blender Foundation have announced their annual fundraiser to help develop and maintain our favorite software! Francesco writes: Blender is free for everyone. However, developing and maintaining the project is not without cost. These costs are solely covered by donations from thousands of individuals and several corporations. While having a good relationship with corporations is [...]

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Blender Foundation Survey

Bart — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 07:35:06 +0000

The Blender Foundation is surveying the community to help define the future of our favorite app. Blender Foundation announces its first user survey, with the goal to learn and understand: The user community demographics: age group, geography and professional background, etc. Common use cases and workflows Most wanted improvements How people connect and get involved as [...]

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Project Gold Will Not Move Forward with Production

Mario Hawat — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:55:55 +0000

This is sadly not the news I was expecting to report on today with the release of Project gold's third production log, but Blender Studio's Executive producer Francesco Siddi confirmed it in a post on the Blender Studio blog: Project Gold will not be moving forward beyond the preproduction phase. In the blog post, Siddi [...]

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Meet Blender at GDC for Breakfast Today!

Bart — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:21:00 +0000

Francesco and Dalai have traveled to GDC in San Francisco to connect with individuals and teams using Blender to create interactive content. They also serve breakfast! Blender is going to host a "studios" breakfast session (Birds of a Feather-style), focused on connecting producers, developers, TDs and artists working in studios where Blender is part of [...]

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Roblox Joins Blender Development Fund

disquick — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:42:44 +0000

Roblox announced they have joined the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Silver member. In addition, Roblox has released an open source add-on for Blender that allows 3D content to be created in Blender and published to Roblox seamlessly, without leaving Blender. Stef Corazza, who previously founded Mixamo and now leads engineering for Roblox’s [...]

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Happy Birthday, Blender!

Bart — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:55:53 +0000

30 years ago, the very first version of Blender saw the light of day! Today, the Blender Studio team put together this amazing video to celebrate. Happy birthday, Blender!

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Blender.org Cyberattack - Final Report

Bart — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:45:02 +0000

As you probably noticed, the Blender.org websites we under attack for several days this week. The 1.5 billion malicious request overloaded the infrastructure, which led to long outages on all platforms, including the main site, the Blender Cloud and the Projects site. The Foundation did not receive any extortion communication, and the motives remain unclear, [...]

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Watch Wing It! Blender's latest Open Movie is Out

Mario Hawat — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:35:35 +0000

Blender's latest Open Movie is out! The stylized 3D/2D Hybrid short film packs a punch at the top of its 4-minute run-time, showcasing to the world the talent of the Blender Studio team and the power and flexibility of the world's best open source creative software! Like every open movie, a slew of behind the [...]

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Wing It! Blender Studio's Latest Open Movie Premiers Tuesday 12th of September!

Mario Hawat — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:35:59 +0000

The wait is almost over! Blender Studio's Latest Open Movie project is set to release in a little more than a day on Blender Studio's YouTube channel or website. Get ready for... WING IT! ? Taking off this Tuesday at 5PM (CEST) on https://t.co/8BSipWebf6 #b3d #OpenMovie pic.twitter.com/jzXdvt7m2h — Blender Studio ? (@BlenderStudio_) September 7, 2023 [...]

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Last Week of Production On Pet Projects

Mario Hawat — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:35:29 +0000

In the latest Blender Studio Production Log, Fiona Cohen shares the inner workings of the Blender Studio during the last week of production on their upcoming Open Film: Pet Projects. Only a few days left in production... Time for bugs to be fixed, colors to change and for magic to happen! ? ? #b3d #OpenMovie [...]

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