Apple participates in the development fund of ultra-high-performance open source 3DCG software 'Blender'



It was announced that Apple has participated in the

'Blender Development Fund ', a development fund for the free 3DCG software ' Blender' developed in open source.

Apple joins Blender Development Fund — blender.org
https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-development-fund/

Blender is a free software that has all the main functions required for 3DCG production such as modeling, rendering, rigging, and physical simulation, and has been adopted as the main tool by the animation production department of the global game company Ubisoft. It is supported by many users.

Blender has a fund to support development, and has received support from many companies & individuals such as Microsoft , Unity, Facebook, AMD, Epic Games, NVIDIA, Amazon.



And on Thursday, October 14, 2021, it was announced that Apple has joined Blender's development fund. According to the announcement, Apple will join the development fund as the most contributing 'Patron' member along with Unity and Facebook. In addition to monetary donations, it will provide the development community with development expertise and additional resources.

According to the data released by Blender, the number of visitors to Blender's website is increasing year by year, and in 2020, 23 million monthly users visited the website. In addition, the breakdown of the number of visitors by country is the United States, India, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Japan, China, Canada, France, etc. in descending order, and Japan is ranked seventh.



In addition, many websites, materials, movies, etc. that explain how to use Blender are published on the Internet. Among them, the

tutorial for Blender beginners by YouTube channel Blender Guru is very popular, and the following movie, which is the first of Tuttle, has been played more than 10 million times at the time of writing the article.

Blender Beginner Tutorial --Part 1 --YouTube


In addition, Reddit's ' Beginner Donut Renders ' was attended by more than 19,800 users at the time of writing, and it seems that the donuts were created based on the above tutorial. CG images are being posted.

Beginner Donut Renders
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlenderDoughnuts/

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