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Re: Blender 4.5 LTS

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Post by tmaly » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC

raincole wrote: post #13

It does feel like Blender is eating the world of 3D content creation.* I know the industry standard of animation is still Maya, and geometry node isn't as powerful as Houdini, but Blender has made such great progress so far... I wonder if there any hobbyist/student who learns 3Dsmax or 3DCoat as their first DCC anymore? *: Assuming genAI won't deliver and make that world disappear entirely, ofc.

My daughter did the Blender donut tutorial and put her 3d animation into the year end art show when she was 10. Having a great community and resources behind the project makes if very easy for students to pick up.

Re: Blender 4.5 LTS

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Post by jack1243star » Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 2:12 AM UTC

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #72

MrScruff wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just for the farm, the large majority of the movie and tv vfx and animation you see is done by artists using Linux workstations.

Not the artists I meet, they love their wacom tablets and pressure responsive painting programs... i.e. most of the other software is windows only. I like Linux (use it everyday), but many CAD, Media, Animation, and Mocap application vendors simply don't publish ports outside Windows. Most studios have proprietary workflows with custom software. =3

The applications I agree, Wacom tablets though have great driver support on Linux (in my experience more stable than Windows).

Re: Blender 4.5 LTS

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Post by babypuncher » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 3:27 PM UTC

Zambyte wrote: post #100

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Information is absolutely stuff.

How much does that thought cost? How much does it weigh?

Information absolutely has a cost, somebody had to create it.

Weight is just nonsense. Physical presence is not a hard requirement for value.

Re: Blender 4.5 LTS

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Post by homarp » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 8:53 AM UTC

homarp wrote: post #18

minimaxir wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Due to Blender being OSS and scriptable with Python ( https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_quickstart.html ), it wouldn't surprise me if a future iteration of genAI/agents works with Blender directly.

There is a Blender MCP server https://blender-mcp.com/

and now there is a second one

https://blender-mcp-psi.vercel.app/ and https://github.com/pranav-deshmukh/blender-mcp

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622374

Re: Blender 4.5 LTS

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Post by Zambyte » Mon, Jul 21, 2025, 4:12 AM UTC

babypuncher wrote: post #103

Zambyte wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much does that thought cost? How much does it weigh?

Information absolutely has a cost, somebody had to create it. Weight is just nonsense. Physical presence is not a hard requirement for value.

> Physical presence is not a hard requirement for value.

Physical presence is a requirement for stuff. Stuff has value because of the balance between supply and demand. Information that has been digitally encoded has literally infinite supply. Information only has any value in the context of imaginary property laws that impose artificial scarcity.

AI companies downloading information is not subsidizing AI companies. Imposing imaginary property law is stealing from the public domain. Everyone's public domain.