Volkswagen backs the Blender Development Fund
First automotve firm to back Blender to give at least €120k/year to the open-source 3D software.
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
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Intel becomes first corporate patron of Krita
Chip giant pledges €30,000/year to fund future development of the open-source digital painting app.
Monday, September 19th, 2022
5 industry stories you may have missed in January 2022
See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.
Tuesday, February 1st, 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
Intel becomes latest Blender Corporate Patron
Open-source 3D app now receives at least €120,000/year from all major CPU and GPU manufacturers.
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender
New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.
Monday, December 13th, 2021
Blender 3.1 to introduce native Metal support in Cycles
New macOS backend unveiled as Apple becomes a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
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
Godot Engine gets $120,000 development grant from Kefir
Leading Russian mobile game studio backs future dev work on the open-source game engine.
Monday, February 15th, 2021
Amazon Web Services is now a Blender Corporate Patron
Tech giant's donation ensures at least €360,000 in funding to overhaul Blender's animation tools.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Facebook becomes Corporate Patron of Blender
Social media giant is the most suprising $120,000+/year backer of the open-source 3D software so far.
Friday, November 20th, 2020
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
Microsoft becomes latest tech giant to back Blender
Strings-free €30,000/year donation will help pay for new Blender staff - now including non-developers.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020