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I find it amazing what open source and community can create! Here is a video of 20 interviews with people around the world on how they use Blender now: https://youtu.be/rJ48-SYY1sQ

Also here is a link to their download page as the Blender home page seems to be slammed today: https://www.blender.org/download/

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I would rather say it is amazing what €1.7mio of founding per year can do to a piece of software that has been lingering around for 26 years. https://fund.blender.org/ The support for the software is based on the hate of cloud-based subscription models of Autodesk et al.

Blender has all but lingered in the last 26 years. It gas been opensourced, The 2.3 - 2.5 transition (Sintel) was huge, the next versions have been super nice, with many important upgrades on editor, ui, a new cycles renderer...

I remember visiting Mexico from the US at the beginning of the current century and walking through a market and seeing bootleg DVDs for sale, nestled among the movies copies of AutoCad and Maya. Thinking, huh this software is really quite expensive and there must be demand for it world wide.

Being excellent, open source and free it pretty much changed the 3d software landscape globally.

I found it odd they didn't include that video on the homepage. Its pretty great showcase of the tool (I learned its python scriptable!)

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