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Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool by throwup238 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:46PM (#43489920)
> I don't know what ingredient made their community so vibrant but it's worth writing it down

The way I remember it, they got huge industry buy in and tons of sponsorships after price hikes for Maya and 3DS Max.

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Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool by MBCook on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:11PM (#43490026)
I have no idea how much it helped them, but they didn’t start from zero.

Since it was a commercial product that was open sourced, it already had users.

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Re:Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool by dartos on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:12PM (#43490040)
Recently, sure, but blender has had a huge, active community for around 20 years.

I remember first running into blender in 2009

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