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Interesting. Has Blender made inroads in pro cinema/gaming, and are those people using Linux? Seems like Canonical thinks it can capitalize on Blender's success.

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I think I saw in a podcast with someone from the anime industry that it is being used for digital animation by some people there. So I definitely believe it is making inroads. NVIDIA has also included it into omniverse as a first class citizen with other more "enterprise" applications. So I would definitely say it has traction.

I do not believe a vast majority of those people are using Linux however, or at least I haven't seen any indication of it. (But maybe some companies render servers do and maybe Blender is useful for that, but like Maya works on Linux iirc)

Can you specify which Podcast? Would love to hear this episode.

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I have fulfilled my responsibility (in the parent) just in case this is easier to see.

If you're still curious, the podcast is Trash Taste which is a bunch of friends talking about their lives really but they had an animator on their for an episode[0], the entirety of the podcast is 2 hours long and the mention of blender is fairly short. I was trying to find a clip because they do that of their own shows, however I found a tweet [1] in looking by the guest. It may still be an interesting one to watch and two of the members Joey (theanimeman) and Garnt (Gigguk) have done tours of anime studios (CloverWorks and JC Staff respectively).

Edit: If Twitter wouldn't have wigged out on me I would have found the link to the clip I was searching for, it was mentioned in the first tweet in that thread [3].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ulkFRXkvQ

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/kenarto/status/136386214032346726...

[3]https://t.co/4fq6LRvHmr?amp=1

Thanks for the detailed response. Will definitely check this out.

Yes, it seems so. For example a couple of years ago the anime studio working on new Evangelion movies moved to Blender [1] and there are other success stories [2]

1. https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-k...

2. https://www.blender.org/user-stories/

edit: add second link

Check out these videos by Ian Hubert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFJ_THGj72U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM

Game Studios like Epic Games and Ubisoft are contributing significant amounts of money to Blender, so if it hasn't made an impact yet, prominent players sure thing it will and are trying to make it happen.

Also Unity, and others.

https://www.blender.org/press/unity-joins-the-blender-develo...

IIRC Movie Next Gen (available on netflix) creator's– Tangent Animation used blender extensively

source : https://lesterbanks.com/2018/09/rigging-next-gen-feature-fil...

The cinema people use this industry stack,

https://vfxplatform.com/

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