V-Ray developer Chaos has begun backing the Blender Development Fund.

Chaos’s Gold membership guarantees at least €30,000/year in funding for the open-source 3D software: roughly half the salary of a full-time Blender developer.

By the standards of the current corporate backers of the Blender Development Fund, Chaos’s is a mid-sized donation.

The largest are Epic Games, semiconductor firm Qualcomm, and VR headset developer Pico, whose Corporate Patron sponsorships guarantee at least €240,000/year.

They are followed by the major GPU and CPU manufacturers: AMD and NVIDIA contribute at least €120,000/year, and Intel at least €120,000/year.

However, it is a mark of Chaos’s recently renewed commitment to Blender.

Last week, the firm released V-Ray 7 for Blender, re-establishing an official integration between Blender and the production renderer.

Chaos becomes the second major renderer developer to back Blender development after OctaneRender developer Otoy, which currently contributes €120,000/year.

Read the Blender Foundation’s announcement that Chaos is backing the Development Fund

Visit the Blender Development Fund website

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