Epic Games continues to provide financial support to open source projects and 25 thousand dollars for the development of a raster graphics editor , developed for artists and illustrators. The editor supports multi-layer image processing, provides tools for working with various color models and has a large set of tools for digital painting, sketching and texture formation. The money will be used to develop the next stable release of Krita.
Donation allocated as part of the initiative , which plans to spend $100 million on grants to game developers, content creators and tool developers related to the Unreal Engine or open source projects useful to the 3D graphics community.
Of the previously donated grants from Epic Games, it can be noted $1.2 million to the Blender project and $25 thousand to the open gaming platform .
Source: opennet.ru