Chaos backs the Blender Development Fund

Renderer developer's €30,000/year contribution to the open-source 3D app follows the release of the new official edition of V-Ray for Blender.

Friday, July 11th, 2025

Otoy backs the Blender Development Fund

OctaneRender developer becomes Blender's latest Corporate Patron, contributing at least €240,000/year to the open-source 3D software.

Friday, February 9th, 2024

See the 2023 Blender development roadmap

See which major features are due in the open-source 3D software in 2023 - and which are delayed.

Tuesday, May 9th, 2023

Volkswagen backs the Blender Development Fund

First automotive firm to back Blender to give at least €120k/year to the open-source 3D software.

Sunday, October 16th, 2022

See the 2022 Blender development roadmap

Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022

Reallusion backs the Blender Development Fund

New tools to improve workflow between Blender and iClone and Character Creator due this year.

Thursday, January 6th, 2022

Adobe backs Blender Development Fund

Software giant's Gold sponsorship provides €30,000/year to help develop the open-source 3D app.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021

Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development

Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2020

AMD to pay $120,000/year towards Blender development

CPU and GPU firm's sponsorship will help to fund Vulkan support within the open-source 3D tool.

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019

Nvidia backs Blender Development Fund

GPU firm's €120,000/year Patron level support will fund two more devs for the open-source 3D app.

Monday, October 7th, 2019

Ubisoft joins the Blender Development Fund

Ubisoft donates €30,000/year to fund development; will adopt Blender in its TV animation studio.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

Epic Games donates $1.2 million to Blender development

'No strings attached' three-year grant almost doubles Blender development funding at a stroke.

Monday, July 15th, 2019

Epic Games funds Blender development

Game developer donates €10,000 to Blender dev fund in order to improve FBX export to Unreal Engine 4.

Monday, July 7th, 2014