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239 points antome | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 04:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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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exitb ◴[20 Nov 24 07:20 UTC] No.42191493[source]▶
At the same time, I'd expect it should have its Linux-moment by now and eat the world, but it doesn't seem to be the case for high profile productions.
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1. flohofwoe ◴[20 Nov 24 07:55 UTC] No.42191677[source]▶
In a way, Blender has eaten the world, it's just very hard to replace an existing and highly customized 3D production pipeline across hundreds or thousands of seats in an existing business. But I bet everyone has created an Autodesk exit-strategy by now and is waiting for an opportune moment to realize it.

Using Blender for a video game production is entirely normal now, but was unthinkable 15 years ago, and starting a new game company which depends on Autodesk tools instead of using Blender is quite foolish tbh.