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Does anyone know how much this sponsorship is worth?
you can read it on their website. i think the patreon one intel signed up for is over 120k a year.
Snippet from website…
Corporate Bronze €6K/year
Corporate Silver €12K/year
Corporate Gold €30K/year
Corporate Patron €120K/year or more
So like.. a single developer?
I know it’s a tough question after decades of Max use; Are you exploring Blender? Porting your tools to Blender?
@jokerMartini
I’ve actually been developing in Unreal for the past 5 years.
I looked into porting some of my tools over to blender. But to be honest, creating tools with pyside interfaces for blender is pain. Blender without question has done one the worst python implementations i’ve seen in a modern day application. For that reason I’ve not ported any. Ive been working more with 3ds Max, Houdini and Maya to be honest.
That’s if no money goes to the managers and executives.
Managers and executives? 🙂
Blender Foundation is a foundation (as the name implies), not a corporation. The point of the development fund is that it’s fully transparent. They release the report every year, where you can see exactly how the money is spent:
https://download.blender.org/institute/blender-annual-report-2020-v1.pdf (page 26 onwards).
Very constructive comment. Thank you very much for the pdf link !
Exactly what Ludvik says.
One key difference between the Blender Institute and other development companies is that you know where the money you give them goes, and there are no super big campaigns with paid advertising and such things.
The money goes to what it should go.
It is a total mystery for me why some people publicly question the legitimate, readable open finance-books of public foundations (like Blender) but never come to an idea to question the money-flows of Nestle, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, P&G, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Kellog’s, Mars and Associated British Foods – products they consume literally every day 100% as food, clothing, drinking or stick them in their bodies. I have regularly discussion about what is happening with the money our village sport-club (low 5 digit numbers p.a.), but none of them asked ever what Alphabet Group, Meta and Apple are doing with his own money and personal data.
Is it the fear to confront something bigger and uglier then you can imagine or digest, and you simply avoid asking yourself such fundamentally big questions?
Noam Chomsky’s words always ring in my head:
“If you would ask a fish at the bottom of an ocean, what is the most evident thing in its life, the very LAST thing this fish would say is – WATER.”