AMD has joined the Blender development fund at Patron level, joining the ranks of Epic and NVIDIA. This news means that AMD will be contributing a further $120,000 a year, enough for two full-time developers. According to a post on Blender Nation, the money is earmarked for ” supporting AMD’s own technologies and paying for general development” as well as “migrating the software to the cross-platform Vulkan graphics AP”. Also announced was $30,000 per year funding from Swedish game developers Embark Studios who will also be releasing some of their in-house tools for Blender. Find out more about the development fund here.
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