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Blender 4.3

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239 points antome | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 04:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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stevage ◴[20 Nov 24 07:00 UTC] No.42191413[source]▶
It's really puzzling (but extremely welcome) that Blender continues to be such an open source success story. Seems rare for such complex pieces of software in a niche space to get that level of development. I wonder what the secret is.
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greenknight ◴[20 Nov 24 07:04 UTC] No.42191429[source]▶
What really kickstarted their development... was the introduction of the Blender Development Fund -- https://fund.blender.org/

They made tiers, made it simple and easy, and promoted it.

Before the fund really was pushed... they were getting about 5,000 USD per month to develop it... Now it is sitting at 215,000 USD per month.

More money = More developers. More Developers = Better product.

Yes it didnt happen overnight that increase, but it was slow and steady.

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1. iamgopal ◴[20 Nov 24 07:45 UTC] No.42191621[source]▶
tell me more or write a blog post.