Why The Blender Conference Blew My Mind AGAIN!

[@KaizenTutorials]

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[@Loubardeur]

Ok, you've convinced me to start a Bronze membership. €5 a month is nothing but if we all do this, Blender will become the industry standard in no time!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Wow that's awesome! €5 is great though, like you said; it's all in the numbers, not in the amount you can spare!

[@definitelynotnick2454]

I subbed for this tier just now :)

[@davef21370]

I'm up for that, gonna do it now.

[@Firelegs101]

I'm a VFX undergrad looking for a job and it scares me to my core to think blender isnt getting enough money.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Exactly! Time to dono 💪

[@albababtout8158]

@@KaizenTutorialsI'm going to​. 💪

[@SimonLacey-MySleekDesigns]

If I used blender I would def donate. It could be $5/month and absolutely worth it.

[@ScuubiDuubi]

I thought they got a portion of the blender market sales all this time. I thought that was how they made their money. Now I don't understand why it isn't?

[@Arcin321]

I have made worlds in blender and I haven't ever donated. Used it so much. I feel bad, and I definitely will make a contribution now.

[@Alumx]

been a proud silver member donator for over 4 years Definitely support Blender! 🎉

[@KaizenTutorials]

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@RogerAdams-art]

Made a donation! Blender saves my butt everyday.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome, that's amazing to hear!

[@dslvfx]

Just as we’ve been outspoken about what we don’t like from big software corporations, we should also support efforts like Blender. Consider this: if Blender becomes increasingly profitable, it’s only a matter of time before other companies start paying attention to what we value. My donation is a way for me to advocate for what I want to see more of in the industry.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Well said and couldn’t agree more!

[@whothewho82]

i completely agree

[@bjaanderson]

I appreciate you bringing this to my attention. I had no idea Blender recieved such low yearly funding. Thanks to this program, I was able to quit my soul crushing job and focus on art. I'm barely getting by, but I'm so much happier now. Just signed up for a Bronze membership. Well worth it.

[@Florianski]

Proud Gold tier member for a bit over a year now. Funny to think how i would never ever give adobe a dime but i will gladly shill out money for Blender. The blender dev team just works so closely with the community and actually listens to it, which makes all the difference for me. Adobe on the other hand feels like an evil giant corporation overlord that dont care about us users at all...

[@TiredTom67]

Donated! After a couple years of learning blender, I never thought to contribute, but its thanks to your video I did. Thanks for your insight!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad to hear it. Thanks for supporting Blender!

[@PabloVazquez]

Thank you for bringing awareness to donations 🧡 Not only for the software development itself but also the infrastructure around it, daily builds, testing, bug triaging, documentation, fighting the usual hack attacks to the servers, and so much more. It really is a huge project. Blender is at the heart but it is supported by a lot of people doing all kinds of work for so many years already.

[@sapphireonze]

I've been using the program since 2020 and I would categorize myself as a Hobbyist. Today I join team Bronze in the Blender Dev Fund! It's my favorite program on my computers and I deeply appreciate the work, the time, and love the team has put into program.

[@DerekElliott]

Thanks for the recap -- always hate to miss it and wish we got to hang out but maybe next time!! also.... DONATE!

[@KaizenTutorials]

For sure! Wouldve been great to have caught up. Hopefully next year! Or maybe they do another US one which I can come to 🙏🏻

[@JaredOwen]

Great video - I appreciate the encouragement to support blender!

[@martingudim8866]

Definitely gonna start donating to Blender 🙏

[@KaizenTutorials]

Love it!

[@StudioWerkz]

Gonna start donating again, I did before but had financial hardships and now in a much better place now.

[@GaryParris]

Absolutely more people can be supporting Blender financially. best money i ever spend is my monthly donation! and Definitely Play more that is the fun thing about Blender! Know the rules and break the rules!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Well said Gary!

[@albababtout8158]

Blender is fabulous ! I just hope it will ONE DAY become a standard in the industry because as a first year student in this field, i'm becoming more skilled at blender.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Don’t worry it will be!

[@s.patterson5698]

The fact that lack of financial resources can slow down the development of Blender is a potential reason why industries may hesitate. This is a good reminder for us to support the continued development. It is in our best interest.

[@yuniorfrometa4749]

all creator using blender should promote this idea, thanks for sharing it, now I will subscribe again to Blender Studio, I hope that will help

[@KaizenTutorials]

Great to hear this and I couldn't agree more!

[@midnightstories5695]

That's sad didn't realize they were struggling with money. Hope it doesn't end up like modo !

[@KaizenTutorials]

I'm not sure if theyré really struggling, but it's also not doing insane and more importantly it should be making so much more for what it is!

[@hoodboyslim]

do your part about it :)

[@TyForge]

Thanks for making a little compilation of this years blender conference! It’s important to talk about those topics good video!:)

[@brabes76]

Thank you for encouraging us to donate. Blender has been such an amazing ride and i am not ready for it to end

[@neiljamessloan]

A crazy good wrap up of the Bender conf. Thanks for your input. I for one will look at making a contribution to the org. thanks to you video. Onya

[@NupeWoop]

Don’t have much, but I do have blender! For that I feel I now have purpose. Thanks for raising awareness, I will be donating now.

[@nicolasgarcia385]

This year's BCON was great as always! But yeah, I hope that they'll find ways to raise more awareness about the importance of donations... Let's hope they'll anounce even better numbers next year!

[@studiomax7043]

My teacher was director of production for the animation of Flow

[@KaizenTutorials]

Wow that's awesome! It's such a cool movie! Can't wait to fully see it :-D

[@roz6346]

Thank you for bringing this to light, I'd never really thought about it before. I'm going to get a bronze membership, I use blender everyday and I think its important to contribute to it's future! :)

[@KaizenTutorials]

That’s so good, thanks!

[@TonjeKristinMortensen]

You convinced me too, I'll start a membership right away! Thanks for spreading the message! It's so easy to forget how many amazing people are behind this amazing software, we need to make sure they can keep developing it! edit: Spelling

[@CGToonStudio]

"Please consider donating to Blender if you can. I'm also about to release an addon that I think you'll find useful. Once it's approved, I'll donate most of the profits to Blender if it does well. Thanks for your support!".

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thats very kind of you!

[@whothewho82]

I dont have the funds to do this today but youve definitely given me ALOT to thnk about. Blender brought me out of a creative funk. I have to support them any way i can!

[@plama1192]

I was subscribed to Blender subscription for some time, even tho i wasn't using it professionally, and didn't had much time ot use it. I lost my job recently and i am trying to go the other way, the freelance now. So once i secure my bills i will definitely subscribe back. disappearance of the tool, like blender would be huge loss for the industry and for humanity. I really hate paying monopolies like Adobe, so being able to pay Blender on my own decision was something that actually brought me a joy. I hope that more people will see the value of freedom that Blender gives.

[@dokifisher967]

I was shocked by the number as well and immediately donated. will be donating more in the future!

[@P1um3P]

i donated 50 euros last month and i just felt like doing it

[@KaizenTutorials]

Amazing!

[@sionewood1071]

thank you for this video mate, I just became a monthly member

[@ratus69]

ok you convinced me, now I'm a gold member, don't want to see blender to slow down or worth. Could you lower the music behind in your future videos as it sounds too loud to me and get issue to fully understand you ? thanks and keep it up !

[@Skyjo3D]

blender is the best

[@KaizenTutorials]

It is!

[@keponism]

We need to support blender! Pls

[@legocrow]

Alright man you made me do it. I only pledged for 5$ a month, but if more people have a similar mindset, the numbers will eventually (and hopefully) add up! I almost feel bad that I use blender so much and it's completely free

[@Nkanyiso_K]

I've never watched so many talks, Great year: I wish I'd been there ❤ *I donated*

[@KaizenTutorials]

Glad to hear it and thanks for supporting Blender!

[@sinnervoncrawsz]

I think that if the minimum monthly donation is one dollar, maybe the collected funds would be much higher. Let's not forget that in many countries 5 dollars is the value of a utility bill. I don't know the company policy but add-on sellers and developers should pay a fairly large percentage of sales

[@Tertion]

Next month will be my one-year aniversary Gold membership ! Its nothing compared to what other softwares (Maya, Zbrush, Substance) would cost me... and, as a bonus, Blender is not stealing my art to train its AI !

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

I've downloaded Blender a few times this year too, just to see when I can finally leave that disgusting 3ds Max behind. Unfortunately, there still isn't a good way to convert assets on your own without a lot of hassle. Too bad-maybe someday with USD.

[@georgepitoy5426]

Minor but important correction that "Flow" is not a short film, but a full-blown feature film! It has made a lot of buzz in the film festivals circuit, and it's starting to get wide releases in theaters. Variety even predicts that it will get nominated at the 2025 Oscars for Best Animated Feature. Imagine that, a fully made in Blender film finally at the Oscars.

[@gammafae]

I haven’t really been using blender as of late due to both being quite busy with my second year of community college on top of my shift of focus to 2D art in the hopes of improving my blender workflow (since for some reason nearly all the tutorials I keep finding on character modeling requires you to know how to draw?? Beginner struggles fr…). On top of all that, my income is pretty inconsistent currently. I’ll see if I can make a one time donation this week at the very least, but I hope to potentially donate more regularly. Blender for me is more so a hobby at this time, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it became a part of my career (despite my main focus in college being foreign language linguistics)

[@Renderrhythms]

I will donate for sure

[@vampireanushka9339]

Unfortunately I do not earn at the moment. But I have decided after the release of project gold shader. I am going to start donating to blender every month, as soon as I start earning.

[@maximence]

Nice reminder, just started my membership :)

[@DrDeliriium]

Donated

[@npj5578]

donated. thanks for the reminder.

[@SanOcelotl]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="375">6:15</a> you did in fact butcher the name lol, great video dude

[@ZergRadio]

Wow, Nurbs and Gaussian Splatting would be really amazing.

[@F.B.J-50]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="94">1:34</a> 😢😢😢 what

[@KaizenTutorials]

yeah so few right?! insane really

[@khalidhussam1484]

When i get money i will support my favorites 3d software off all time ❤

[@sergiogonzalez2611]

I will donate today , I feel ashamed of myself

[@silv3rarr0w15]

I want to know when will blender's official online asset library open. I saw it in a speech.

[@theshubhamdhage]

thanks for making this video. just started my bronze membership and blender studio membership.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Love it! Thanks for the support to Blender 👍🏻

[@hermano8160]

Alright, you just made me donor. It's not much but from honest work.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Everything counts! 🧡

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Concerning the funds. Chexk out the numbers pre 2.8!!! Thats way and way lower. I believe it was around 70-90k € back then. Pablo doing his weekly shows and peomoting did a HUGE favor to to blender

[@MMMMeeeeMMMM]

For me there is no BCON without Kaizen's Summary! Thanks Sir!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Eyyyy love it haha

[@JayBacay]

I'm just gonna wait patiently for anyone whos gonna create a tutorial for brushstroke tool

[@omnymisa]

Yes, interface was a bit of a wall first time I tried to learn blender, and the second a many more afterward, but also for a long time what I had was mac computers and it was worst when trying to follow tutorials all of that for more than a decade you know putting the effort on hold because day to day routine takes a lot and then since the last year I have had more time and not that much pressure from other stuff and having a proper PC is when am finally getting to create stuff and learning, maybe am persistent maybe stubborn but I wish I can start making money by using Blender and I wouldn't think it twice on donating or even if by other means my economy does improve.

[@GermanFragEditing]

When my loan arrives I'm gonna donate to blender, I should have done it sooner..

[@KaizenTutorials]

Thank you for supporting them!

[@MomoTempest6]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="34">00:34</a>

[@jujuboohoo]

I think the problem with Blender donation is, at least for me, the 5 euro minimum which is half of my 3rd world daily salary. To put that into perspective 5 euro is what it'd cost if I eat out 3 times a day which I don't. Having said that, you've convinced me to do it and I just donated 5usd. USD because it's a little cheaper than euro. 😅 I'll do my best to donate as often as possible.

[@S9universe]

please make us a simple brush style tutorial with new animation tools ♥

[@Kerden97]

I would gladly allocate a small amount, but unfortunately, I cannot manage it financially even as a one-time contribution at this moment. I love Blender and have been enjoying it since I started my career as a 3D graphic designer in my country, after finishing my graphic design studies. However, I am currently struggling to make ends meet. I have been looking for work in my field for over a year and am slowly losing faith in what I'm doing. That's why I started a KZbin channel focused on short tips and advice on Blender, trying to function by doing something I enjoy while fighting every day for survival. Juniors are currently facing a huge challenge in finding anything at minimum wage, at least in Poland, or maybe I'm just too weak to be a 3D artist. ^^ Best regards to everyone, and I will definitely contribute a sum in the future when I can finally afford it!

[@RomboutVersluijs]

I wished they ised easier i out for the N and K values for that new new metal bsdf. Those vakues are easier to find vs those 3 list values they use. There are website with N and K valuew, but they use a dofferent input. This method makes it much harder to find the numbers. I know one website which has these numbers, but its limited on what materials it has

[@yourfriendlygamedev]

I was there. I highly recommend any and all people to go.

[@Filmmaking-pk1nq]

started silver monthly donations, thank you for pointing this out!

[@KaizenTutorials]

Awesome, thanks! 🧡

[@luluskuy]

it really feels like inventor conference

[@HollowsDarkness]

If I had a job in the industry id donate but I don't have even a normal job.

[@tahas4444]

I really wish I had something, anything to give... but sadly I don't...

[@bme4285]

Does it have to be a monthly contribution or can one do one time payments when able?

[@ButtonsTheMonkey]

I wish I can get comfortable with using Blender. The things I see it can do it so great... but then I get overwhelmed and just sink back the comfort of Cinema4D. For me it is the UI... it's just so daunting and things work just a little bit different that things that are second nature in one is so foreign in the other. Maybe if I didn't have the safety net of going to another program I'd keep pushing myself. But who knows, maybe one day I'll jump back in and things will just click like when I first started learning 3D.

[@7415_Gamer]

The UI isn't comfortable. I want to see the four views just like 3dsmax.

[@ButtonsTheMonkey]

@@7415_Gamer I think I remember getting that kind of setup in Blender but it was a bit of a headache and clumsy setup.

[@Arjjacks]

@@7415_Gamer Try ctrl>alt>Q next time you're in Blender and see what you make of it.

[@wywarren]

I think the timestamps are off for the chapters

[@GamerFollower]

Why cant blender charge large businesses that use it and free for personal/individual/small companies?

[@vim1000]

I would love to but couldn't make any money yet. 😢

[@Micky3DCG]

Merci

I'll get my membership!!! lets do it!

[@borisrailean4755]

Donated 5€ to Blender. Let's support them

[@RomboutVersluijs]

What infind strange, is that how can they loose money on the bacon event. Just make the tickets more expensive. People still come. It always sold out. Ps those number for venue + catering are bizarre high if you ask me. Also the recording. But that ofcourse lots of work.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

They could get lower pricing by changing venue and dropping the free food and all day drinks. I also guess adding vegan food makes the price go up. We all know if you ask a catering for food, it costs money.

[@NintendoKnightThefirst]

I wish i could donate but im studying and barely making by.When im done i will donate 100 dollars per month after getting a stable job

[@oliviernetter4043]

Please consider that in Blender's economical model, what you give (money) is immediately invested in search and development for the improvement of the "product" so each time you download please give 1 € or dollar, or more. if you don't trust in that state of mind, maybe one day there will be a company that will charge parents 1000 $ for their unborn child to have full functionnal hands... Who knows... Blender is Freedom if you buy them (and us, and you) a coffee and then... "Who knows God could be a Black Woman" (Jim Brindwell RIP). Peace

They should just add a donate button to a popup that is shown when opening the app. Also the minimum donation is 5$, why not make that lower? Even getting just 2 or 1$ is better than nothing?

[@pyrrostsioutras9272]

thank you for letting us know! let's make some donations to our beloved free Software!

[@ricardopitta8272]

don't blender maketplace get some % of the price for blender?

[@KaizenTutorials]

Blendermarket allows you to give away a portion of your profits yeah. This totals to around $160.000 a year currently I believe. But thats included in the 3.2 mil usd total for 2024

[@arch.blender1178]

Proud to say I am one of the 10,000

[@Jaeyunhua]

I don't know how important this is to you, but it looks like you messed up the chapter timestamps in the description

[@RomboutVersluijs]

For the image textures. Ive been using an addon aince 2.78nand have added some frsrires to it. This makes it possible to oick texutres using thumbnails. They are nit as big as shown here. But it is way easier than what it was. It also has a feat8re when you double click the inage textire node in the shader editor, it shows the correct inage in the uv esitor. Also when you chnage the inage in the uv esitor, tou can the. Send it back to the node editor. So you dont to use that horible kist selection method. Its a free addon. Let me know who likes to try. Ill add my girhub link here

[@LegendaryLife]

To be Honest what blender packs, it should not be free. Atleast it should be following a program just like Da Vinci Resolve, free to use but all enticing features for a one time paid Studio version.

[@KaizenTutorials]

I love the fact its open source. Its why so many people are committed to it in terms of development and adding features etc. I could see some merit in maybe doing a ‘latest version cost $10 one time with lifetime updates’ or you can download older versions for free. Bit the way Blender is built (legally) it just simply doesn’t allow to be sold. Which is great and unique for a software a good as Blender 🧡

[@LegendaryLife]

@KaizenTutorials I am a newer user and have started blender very recently. I heard it from PonySmasher channel a few years back and day by day it grew on me. I bought a computer just to learn Da Vinci resolve and blender. I honestly know that "Donate" word itself turns off people's thinking, only if it were paid, people would just gladly do it. Heck more people buy individual channel cources for blender than donations itself. If blender cannot get payment then to support it, they must sell some Official Courses and put videos on youtube to generate Some funds. I definitely think they need someone who can advise them financially. "People are not going to DONATE" that's a fact. Thanks for your videos though. I love them.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Folks show stop about GUI issies. There is no gooden gui for a 3d apo. Every app has its pros and cons. The amount of users is so vast and they all have different knowledge of using a computer, using 3d, understanding ux and what not. This is a never ending story

[@RomboutVersluijs]

His remarks about a more feedback is all nice and dandy. But this means, blender needs to be checking eve5innthe background. You know how taxing this is onnthe hardware. Wonder if they thought about that. Blenders GUI has gotten majored upgrades and is vastly more responsive then it ever was. Don't bog down with these tons of checkers. Perhaps for a new users, okay that's fine. But this all will come at a cost. I frankly never seen a 3d app do this

[@folschild]

Flow is a feature film.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Did I say short film? 😅 but yeah I did know that and thats what so cool about it!

[@NicCrimson]

10000 Individual donations are not a lot compared to the user base. Hopefully Tiki provides some funds for them.

[@KaizenTutorials]

Absolutely not no and yes let’s hope Tiki does that indeed! 🙏🏻

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

I hope I can donate Blender, but I'm broke man! Like, a single 1 dollar, it's 15 thousands rupiah on my country Indonesia. And donating $100, it will be RP ‭1,585,000... Once again, I'm broke.

[@Nick_Lavigne]

yeah. That's open source for you.

[@esphilee]

If you profit from using Blender, do donate. If you support FOSS, do donate.

[@CGYI-zb3ho]

I really dont get it why this will be no industry standard

[@KaizenTutorials]

Same!

[@hanif72muhammad]

if you make money with free software and that software is really help you, please donate to them

[@nisagomez4366]

Donate what you can, you bums! 🎉

[@JRHainsworth]

For once I do agree with Andrew "I miss being able to say slurs" Price. There is a steep curve for learning the UI.

[@KaizenTutorials]

💀😅