AMD to the program as the main sponsor (Patron), transferring more than 3 thousand euros per year for the development of the free 120D modeling system Blender. The proceeds are planned to be invested in the overall development of the Blender 3D modeling system, migration to the Vulkan graphics API, and ensuring high-quality support for AMD technologies. In addition to AMD, the main sponsors of Blender previously also included NVIDIA and Epic Games. Details of the financial participation of NVIDIA and AMD are not disclosed, and Epic Games has allocated 1.2 million to fund Blender over three years.
About Blender support also Embark Studios and Adidas who entered "gold" and "silver" sponsors, respectively. Embark Studios will transfer Blender from 30 thousand euros per year and make their Blender tools open source (some Embark tools are already ). In the long term, Embark Studios plans to move to using Blender as its main 3D and . The contribution of Adidas, which uses Blender to solve visualization problems, will be from 12 euros per year.
Source: opennet.ru