Great, that's all that the big-headed Blender Foundation needed, even more praise and ego stroking (the animated Oscar winner thanked them).

So now they can keep investing their precious open-source funding that so many other FOSS projects thirst for, into useless stuff like the VSE (video sequence editor) that will never compete with proprietary or even specialized solutions, while somehow ignoring the many quality-of-life and useful ideas available in rightclickselect or in the ACTUAL CODE from pull-requests that people send them with useful additions, stuff that they refuse to add / ignore and let rot because they don't have to create a competitive product that sells, as it's already funded.

Blender gets to become this bloaty sluggish package that only "looks good" because there's no competition. There is no other 3D DCC package, and even if someone tried to create one they'd be discouraged from evangelist comments like "but Blender already exists".
But hey look, we changed the version number to 4. Hooray, that's progress, right?
Thank you, Blender?
More like get your shit together, Blender.

>>1008528 (OP)
If mayafags wanted a win they should have made a good movie

>>1008530
You mean like every Disney, Dreamworks, anime and WB film who also wins these awards every year. Blender didn’t help make the movie, they had to create custom code on everything, 5 million dollars in spending and they only showed it on selected areas. The award is a sham a false narrative about blender. They should not have been nominated.

>>1008528 (OP)
Idk how much of these fund goes to the VSE, every user has his priorities, retopology tools, texture paint, parametrical modeling, SDF, better sculpt tools etc... you have to understand that blender isn't made for the users, blender is made for the Blender studio and they do what they need for their little projects, this year they are doing a ""game""" in Godot, 2 shorts and a character project, whatever that is, so expect more focus on what they need for these things, you could add the movie from the Dillongoo studio that is paying the npr mode.
Yes I would like to have all the sculpt shit that Dobarro or Eagar did and it is unfinished, the bevel node that was announced 3 years ago, more work in the SDF nodes that have been in experimental more than a year and lots of other things...

>>1008534
>they had to create custom code on everything
According to the director they used a bunch of addons, some of them from the Blender market and that's it: AnimAide, Anim Toolbox, Rig Picker, Copy Global Transform, F Curve Helper and the Asset Library addon. anyhow it is a small movie with few complex scenes, it is basically 5 animals in a boat, in the trailer you can see some boid simulations with fishes and insects, a crowd simulation with deers and the water and physic effects ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgZccxuj2RY

>>1008528 (OP)
thank you ADDONS
>>1008541
water sim was made from scratch then put out as an ADDON

>>1008541
>Selected areas to watch
>MAX only for streaming
This is clearly a paid project by Warner Bros. who killed a better cartoon movie and other movies for their awards.

this is how you know no artistry was involved.
do you ever see anyone else going up there and being like
>thank you autodesk maya
>thank you adobe premiere
>thank you avid pro tools
>thank you foundy nuke
no; because the tools are just a means to an end
not here though, because it's about promoting the cult, not about expression

>took 5 1/2 years in Blender what would take maybe 2 or at most 3 years in Maya
Latvians really are this retarded

>>1008554
Alias|Wavefront was awarded an Oscar in 2003, employees previously were honored by the Academy for achievements in the Scientific and Technical category too.
Anyhow no mayor studio (Disney/Pixar, Illumination, Warner, Dreamworks etc..) funds Blender, the only ones putting money there are Studio Kara.

>>1008556
the oscars regularly hands out awards for technical achievements. this is not one of those awards; the blender foundation isn't winning an award.

>>1008556
Studio Kara abandoned Blender, their YouTube videos showed different 3D software and animations. Not once did they showcase Blender.

>>1008559
?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d34_baCkJc
they are named as silver sponsors in the blender fund page too ....

>>1008563
That was during their blender session and testing. They never mentioned blender or use it ever again. 2 years after the video and news, nothing.

>>1008568
idk man, the people from pencil+ say that Khara are using pencil+ for blender in the next Gundam tv show too
https://www.psoft.co.jp/jp/product/gallery/20250122-gquuuuuux/

>>1008576
>no information provided
Seems very unlikely, plus we don’t exactly have any videos from them to show otherwise.

>>1008536
>blender is made for the Blender studio and they do what they need for their little projects
They always cheat and use a different branch, it's never the latest stable release.
Once they're done, not all the additions make it to trunk.

I would really like to see a competitor.
There was going to be the Wizart DCC release in open-source form (they said the software was used to make the Netflix movie Secret Magic Control Agency), but they changed it to a free tier & subscription tiers instead, and rebranded:
https://shapefx.app/
And anyway, their head of R&D said in an article that "Our artists have increasingly begun to use Blender professionally in their 3D modeling tasks, so we are adding Blender support to our production processes".

In other news, MODO is dead:
https://www.foundry.com/news-and-awards/foundry-winds-down-modo-development

>>1008554
>thank you, software devs we paid out the ass for
vs
>thank you, software devs that put out their work for free

That's the difference.

>>1008642
Oh really?
The very first version of Blender, released at no cost, was indeed a work of generosity. Nobody knew about it, so it was a gift.
But now there's a dev fund. Try erasing it, see how many developers stick around :)
I'm sure any "ideas man" is gonna run out of ideas. No more fancy photo studio profile pictures either, oh no. How else are they gonna look important now while mis-tagging bug reports and disabling API access, instead of adding more useful things that actually help people?

>>1008638
Was not entirely free, $5 million is not a joke. Custom code, marketing and other movie cost isn’t free.

You too can become a national hero through Blender

I CAN HEAR MAYA USER COPING AND SHEETING

>>1008752
I can hear saars orgasming

>>1008528 (OP)
imagine what they could have achieved with industry sw instead of torturing themselves in Blender.. it's a tragedy

>>1008772
I am not saar.

I spent real money to watch Flow because my friends said it would good since it won an Oscars or whatever and it was boring as hell. There was a part where the cat turned white when going under an object that cast a shadow on it, assuming there's some shader issues? Dunno anything about lighting.

What is it with open source projects making users cultists?

>>1010051
Blender is probably the most comfy and productive one for polymodelling. I mean, for directly manipulating vertices/edges/faces.
Translating, rotating, scaling, extruding, poking, pushing, pulling, beveling, cloning, and whatnot.
Also new experimental NPR branches - is there even alternative in 3dsmax or Maya?

>>1010971
They were lazy it’s what happened, the other times when cat was on direct sun the fur didn’t over saturated. Also the whole water thing was over hyped. Nothing was necessary when the water can be CGI. 4 million dollars just to look like slime is not good enough for an Oscar.

>>1008648
retarded point. devs get paid so its actually a bad thing that your grateful for free software. good one u fucking moron

>>1008528 (OP)
>useless stuff like the VSE (video sequence editor) that will never compete with proprietary or even specialized solutions
oh yeah, i remember when people used to say that Blender was just a little toy and it would never compete with 3ds max as a 3d modeler, and look where we are now

>>1012459
Ya a broken car that runs on custom wheel handle. Want to break? The old way is gone, the mutishort cut will absolutely kill you.

>>1008568
Blender is in the end credits for that new Gundam GCucks anime tho

Well I just saw the movie, gotta say I loved it, the award is deserved

>>1013022
Badly written story that never explains anything, bird just disappeared. Cat living without food for a few days. Cat catches fish in water. Animals that eat fresh fruit stay alive by not eating them for days. Dogs are jerks in the movie. Everyone becomes friends for no reason.

That’s not a movie that’s a butch of one offs ideas put into a film. These types of low effort movies are called Slow cinema: https://www.robertcmorton.com/the-art-of-slow-cinema/

>>1013032
Go back to watching marvelslop if you need everything to be explained

>>1013033
Get lost blendead, movies are supposed be entertaining. Flow has zero story, butch of random ass favorite animals doing their thing. No one in the movie was cooperating with each other. They hated each other’s presence. That’s not a movie that entertainment anyone. Gosh no wonder they were aired in a few select cinemas, normal people would be asking for refunds.

What about the kids, the main audience? They literally don’t want to watch it. The best movie was The Wild Robot that is exactly the same thing. Oscar giving awards means nothing when people don’t watch the films. The awards are always rigged, they were never nominated by the people. Rich people only get that privilege, not you. I didn’t vote for Flow and neither did you, this movie was not in your blandead mind until someone told you. Thats how you are so obsessed with a movie that you have no feelings for.

>>1013036
>This movie challenges my verylimited attention span. Save me Michael Bay!
>Duntchu worry anon I'm here, Skibidi Toilet is coming and it'll slide down your throat like a well polished turd

>>1008530
>Blender the only 3d software

3ds max, maya and cinema 4d do everything better then blender and is industry standard. Blender is just bewannabe the only thing good about that is free. All studios use autodesk at the end.

>>1013037
Making insults in the form of gen z references makes you look childish. You honestly think that’s how WE insult each other in 4chan? Get lost blendead.

Haters gonna hate.
Maya and C4D fanboys are seething that a free and open source software is competing with them. Kek
Get a life, faggots.

>>1014378
Did you not read, Blender did not create the water. They had to make a plugin because Blender’s version sucks ass. 4 million dollars spent and they only played it on selected theaters. They did not reach the 4 million dollars they spent. You can only see it exclusively on MAX.

This doesn’t paint a good image. Plus the Academy Award is well known scam that sells “awards”: https://www.theringer.com/2024/11/22/movies/oscars-category-fraud-history-ranking

>>1014405
>Ahhhh, they did not use the water from Blender!!! What a scam!!! Aaaahhhhhh Help! Help! Blender Foundation is full of scammers!!!! Heeeeelp!
Big studios use an entire arsenal of software to accomplish a certain goal. For instance ZBrush for sculpting, Substance for texturing, Houdini for particle effect and so on. So what that Blender is not capable of doing all of this perfectly like other dedicated tools that are basically only useful for one task? Boo fucking hoo, go cry more about it. Blender is still great and doesn't force you into a subscription plan that will drain half your salary each month.