They keep joining in

[Bullit]

AMD joins Blender Development Fund patron with $120000 after Nvidia doing the same earlier in the year. To support AMD hardware in Blender and migrating Blender to Vulkan API

Embark Studio will pay 30000€/year will also release some own Blender tools
https://www.blendernation.com/2019/10/2 ... ment-fund/

[Draise]

The news for Blender has been quite interesting this year. I'm curious to see where it goes.

[Bullit]

Yep, i hope the hype and the $$$ means workable solutions. Blender should not forget that if they play with big boys they start to get also more attention and criticism.

[gaboraa]

I think I should look into blender once again, maybe things may change quicker than I've thought. -I know workflow is still crappy-

[bvmadjen]

I tired blender 2.80

the interface is much more usable. however, it's still a pain to create anything via splines, and it's missing some modeling tools.

[Hirazi Blue]

I think Blender 2.8 is genuinely an improvement over earlier versions,
but I personally dislike that the focus has shifted towards EEVEE.
It would have been nice, if they had kept the "native" Blender renderer around as an option as well...

[Draise]

Really? I love Eevee, hated Blender Render. I've done about half a dozen projects in Eevee this year, and it has delivered. Reflections and refraction can be improved, and some better GI, but it's really fast for what it is. It's like.. authoring in Unreal Engine. It can do everything Blender Renderer can do. What do you miss from the legacy renderer?