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Blender Studio
Company blog · cloud.blender.org/blogdesign
Blender Studio is the company blog at cloud.blender.org, writing about design. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Blender Studio for its Blender tutorials and for the open movie projects whose files can be downloaded. Commenters cite them for learning Blender and for reusing source material.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blender Studio is a web service that provides access the training videos and all the data from the Blender open projects.
Most-linked posts?
- Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-24
- Blender crowdsourcing an open film2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-31
- Blender Cloud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-30
- /open-projects2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-03
What Hacker News says?
About six years now. I remember initially using some official tutorials that weren’t great. These new ones are much better: https://cloud.blender.org/p/blender-inside-out/560414b7044a2... The various Andrew Price videos were very helpful and once I had an idea of what feature I needed to use it made searching for tutorials easier. For specific scientific applications, I can’t say. I’ve used various Adobe tools and C…
Comment linking /p/blender-inside-out/560414b7044a2a00c4a6da98
on “Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos”Submitted Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster as a story · 197 points
HN discussionAnother way to support the project is by subscribing Blender Cloud. Gives you access to tutorials, etc. https://cloud.blender.org/
Comment linking /
on “Blender 2.79 released”Submitted The Blender Studio Pipeline as a story · 154 points
HN discussionAll Blender movies can be downloaded for this reason: https://cloud.blender.org/open-projects Last month they discovered a bug in Blender that was the cause of very slow hair rendering. The fix dropped render times for some scenes from 4 minutes to 40 seconds. So it can indeed be useful to check if things can be improved for old movies. But I am not sure realtime is an option right now. Most movies also use post pro…
Comment linking /open-projects
on “Moana Motunui Renderer on GPU”Submitted Blender crowdsourcing an open film as a story · 54 points
HN discussionRather uniquely, the project's assets are released "for download and experimentation" "to help the industry better understand 4K HDR and immersive audio in anime". Although the article doesn't say, the assets are licensed under the Creative Commons 4.0 (By-Nc-Nd) [1]. I know of only a few [2] other [3] media projects that release their source material under such permissive licenses. Although I am not personally in t…
Comment linking /open-projects
on “Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante”Submitted Editing Advice with Sprite Fright’s Co-Director as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSo, I got all excited about funding this, and went to their page[0] to see what funding options are available. Unfortunately, there's nothing there that's reasonably priced and exclusive. I'm not a film maker - I'm a film watcher - but I'd love to see more open technology for making films come out and reduce the barrier to entry, so that I can find more of what I enjoy. I just can't justify giving away a significant…
Comment linking /gooseberry/
on “Why Gooseberry, the open animation film, matters”Submitted Krita Warp Tool Hits Warp Speed as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBlender has an optional SaaS solution ("Blender Cloud": https://cloud.blender.org/about ) which people pay for to fund things. There's also the Blender Foundation, which accepts donations and funds things too.
Comment linking /about
on “Open Source doesn't win by being cheaper”Submitted Blender Studio’s 13th open movie will be an 80s-inspired horror comedy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Spring”: Blender Open Movie Directed and Written by Andy Goralczyk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Art Director Andy Goralczyk on Blender’s Most Ambitious Movie Yet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blender: Storyboarding with Grease Pencil as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animation: Motivation and Advice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Production Lesson: Hairspray Effects with Geometry Nodes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Storytelling: Creating Emotions and Crafting Jokes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blender Cloud – Films as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every Frame Counts: Cinematography with Colin Levy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Stepping on Toes: New Character Pipeline Addon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coffee Run as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blender Cloud as a story · 1 points
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