With two big companies funding Blender, the future does look bright for them.
This news comes a week after Epic Games announced that it is awarding Blender Foundation $1.2 million in cash spanning three years, to accelerate the quality of their software development projects. Ubisoft was thus convinced that this is the “ right time to bring support to our artists and productions that would like to add Blender to their toolkit.” Ubisoft was impressed with the growth of the internal Blender community as well as with the innovations expected in Blender 2.8.īlender 2.8 will have a revamped UX, Grease Pencil, EEVEE real-time rendering, new 3D viewport and UV editor tools to enhance users gaming experience. Blender 2.8 beta is already out, and its stable version is expected to be released in the coming days. Per Jacquet, Blender 2.8 will be a “ game-changer for the CGI industry”. Later, the Blender software will also be used in Ubisoft’s upcoming shows in 2020. The Blender software will replace Ubisoft’s in-house digital content creation tool and will be used to produce short content with the incubator. “We love the idea that this mutual exchange between the foundation, the community, and our studio will benefit everyone in the end”, he adds.Īs part of their new workflow, Ubisoft is creating a development environment supported by open source and inner source solutions. He also believes that since Blender is an open source project, it will allow Ubisoft to share some of their own developed tools with the community. Pierrot Jacquet, Head of Production at UAS mentioned in the press release, “Blender was, for us, an obvious choice considering our big move: it is supported by a strong and engaged community, and is paired up with the vision carried by the Blender Foundation, making it one of the most rapidly evolving DCCs on the market.” The Gold corporate members donate a minimum of EUR 30,000 as long as they remain a member. The Gold corporate members also have a strong voice in approving projects for Blender. Gold corporate members of the Blender development fund can have their prominent logo on dev fund page and have credit as Corporate Gold Member in and in official Blender foundation communication. The exact funding amount has not been disclosed.
It has also been announced that Ubisoft will be adopting the open-source animation software Blender as their main digital content creation (DCC) tool. Yesterday, Ubisoft Animation Studio (UAS) announced that they will fund the development of Blender as a corporate Gold member through the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund.
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