{"id":116035,"date":"2020-07-29T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefromscratch.com\/post.aspx?id=9587180e-a26e-449c-9ee3-0142a4389827"},"modified":"2020-07-29T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:08:03","slug":"microsoft-join-blender-development-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/29\/microsoft-join-blender-development-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Join Blender Development Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft have just joined the Blender Development Fund as a Gold Sponsor, joining the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/post\/2019\/07\/15\/Epic-Games-Give-Blender-Foundation-12M.aspx\">Epic Games<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/post\/2019\/07\/22\/Ubisoft-Joins-Blender-Foundation.aspx\">Ubisoft<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/post\/2019\/10\/23\/AMD-Joins-Blender-As-A-Patron.aspx\">AMD<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/post\/2019\/10\/07\/Blender-Is-Not-For-Sale.aspx\">NVIDIA<\/a>.&nbsp; Microsoft are currently using Blender in some in-house projects and will be supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/fund.blender.org\">Blender Development fund<\/a> to the tune of 30K Euro per year.&nbsp; Details of the deal from the Blender website:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft makes use of Blender to generate synthetic 3D models and images of humans that can be used to train AI models. For researchers, having access to high quality free\/opensource 3D software has proven to be of great benefit for scientific projects. You can check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2019\/09\/2019-10-01-Synthetic-Data-with-Digital-Humans.pdf\">some of their work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To express their support, Microsoft is joining the Blender Foundation\u2019s Development Fund as a Corporate Gold member per July 1st, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>We at Blender are very proud of this support statement, it\u2019s another important signal that the industry migrates to open source and finds ways to contribute to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can learn more about the announcement and development fund in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bo_b9hP3grY\">video<\/a> below.&nbsp; If you are afraid of these corporate influences taking over Blender please be sure to watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tFJ8P7yVHYY\">video<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p class=\"under\"> <span class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/category\/GameDev-News.aspx\">GameDev News<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/?tag=\/Blender\" rel=\"tag\">Blender<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> &lt;!&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft have just joined the Blender Development Fund as a Gold Sponsor, joining the likes of Epic Games, Ubisoft, AMD and NVIDIA.&nbsp; Microsoft are currently using Blender in some in-house projects and will be supporting the Blender Development fund to the tune of 30K Euro per year.&nbsp; Details of the deal from the Blender website: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-116035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-development","tag-gamedev-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116035","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=116035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}