They’re not really in financial trouble. They just need more money to develop new tools to compete with industry standard software like Autodesk, Maya, Houdini, etc.
I follow Blender on Mastodon and, about a month ago, they started this campaign to see if they could double the amount of donations (from approximately 1% of users to 2% of users), and it’s been decently successful so far just by putting “Can you donate?” banners in more places (and posting memes about donating on their social media).
I think the funding campaign only lasts a month, so it’s probably about over (though donations are always accepted, this is just a brief social media campaign to increase development funds for FY2025).
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They’re not really in financial trouble. They just need more money to develop new tools to compete with industry standard software like Autodesk, Maya, Houdini, etc.
I follow Blender on Mastodon and, about a month ago, they started this campaign to see if they could double the amount of donations (from approximately 1% of users to 2% of users), and it’s been decently successful so far just by putting “Can you donate?” banners in more places (and posting memes about donating on their social media).
Here’s a short video they put out about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v7Uhoot4Qg
I think the funding campaign only lasts a month, so it’s probably about over (though donations are always accepted, this is just a brief social media campaign to increase development funds for FY2025).
Some dude came in and showed stuff in all the blenders while screaming about not breathing