{"id":102362,"date":"2019-10-23T16:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefromscratch.com\/post.aspx?id=09d744be-2cd0-450b-a5d9-7faabab64bd6"},"modified":"2019-10-23T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:39:27","slug":"amd-joins-blender-as-a-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/23\/amd-joins-blender-as-a-patron\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD Joins Blender As A Patron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019 has been a massive year for the open source 3D application Blender.&nbsp; Back in July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/post\/2019\/07\/30\/Blender-280-Released.aspx\">Blender 2.80 was released<\/a>, perhaps the biggest release in Blender\u2019s history.&nbsp; Just a few days later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/post\/2019\/07\/15\/Epic-Games-Give-Blender-Foundation-12M.aspx\">Epic Games announced<\/a> that they would be giving Blender 1.2M dollars as part of their Mega-grant program.&nbsp; Then earlier this month, NVIDIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/post\/2019\/10\/07\/Blender-Is-Not-For-Sale.aspx\">became a Patron level sponsor<\/a>, the highest tier possible.&nbsp; Today another company joined that tier, announced in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blender_org\/status\/1187019907768242176\">the following tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/image.axd?picture=image_3470.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"249\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/amd-joins-blender-as-a-patron.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No formal details of the partnership have been announced by either Blender or AMD as of yet, but a patron level sponsorship means that AMD will be giving the Blender Foundation at least 120K Euro\/month, enabling the hiring of at least two developers full time!<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about this and prior announcements in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LuecgWCP13g\">video<\/a> below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LuecgWCP13g&#038;w=853&#038;h=480]<\/p>\n<p class=\"under\"> <span class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/category\/GameDev-News.aspx\">GameDev News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/category\/Art.aspx\">Art<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/?tag=\/Blender\" rel=\"tag\">Blender<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 has been a massive year for the open source 3D application Blender.&nbsp; Back in July Blender 2.80 was released, perhaps the biggest release in Blender\u2019s history.&nbsp; Just a few days later, Epic Games announced that they would be giving Blender 1.2M dollars as part of their Mega-grant program.&nbsp; Then earlier this month, NVIDIA became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[74,72],"class_list":["post-102362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-development","tag-art","tag-gamedev-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}