LET'S TRY THIS ONE AGAIN. Originally this event was scheduled as the last stream of 2017. Unfortunately, an apocalypse of technical difficulties left us without a paddle and we had to cancel. With tails between legs, we retreated, recovered, and have since done several streams in 2018 successfully. So we're giving this topic another go and adding a fourth voice to the conversation: Animator extraordinaire, Wayne Dixon!
Blender has its fanboys, its haters, its utilitarians, its leachers. Given that Blender is powered by the open source movement, it's easy to become fanboys and fangirls. But is that a good thing for Blender or for Blender artists? Blender is free and it's easy to utilize as such, but its also easy to suck it dry; not give anything back. Surely this isn't good for Blender, but is it wrong?
Where do CGCookie instructors fall in this discussion? Find out in the stream with me (Kent), Jonathan Lampel, Jonathan Williamson, and Wayne Dixon! It will be a delightful cocktail of close-minded opinions and practical insight about defining a relationship with our beloved software.
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JJonathan W: Agreed totally! This is this great spirit which will continue to expand Blender across the entire globe, since it enable (s way) more then "blender-ing" alone.
Would other company try to stop Blender being free?
What if Blender gets really powerful and starts eating the other software's cake?
Amen, Darren.
we do it with the blender asset side, why not the tools
I agree Darren.
maybe its just me, but if someone spent 10 hours making something that saves me days of work, why wouldnt you spend a tenner if it helps your work and saves you time.
Money is also a way of getting your time and energy BACK in a different format
It's according to (for me) how much is put into the development of that tool.