I was wondering how the Blender Foundation works. One post on another site said that Blender will never be fully supported by professional community because Blender is the creators plaything.
I was wondering what he meant by that comment and do you agree? Below is the comment:
Developers being subservient to the sales process, however, instead of treating the software like their sandbox and play thing, and a massive, competent client based with razor thin margins to play by is a much bigger factor that Blender, intrinsic to its nature and that of its devlopers, simply can’t ever reach critical mass on.
It’s always give and take, no dev or business model is perfect.
Blender gets the latest tech because it’s its creators plaything, it gets interesting tidbits from Siggraph much, much sooner than Maya or Soft ever do (if they ever get it), but you also have to take the fast spinning mill and the disjointed presentation and greatly varying accessibility that come with its model.
When business models are predicated on tight margins (vfx), dev models like that tend to scare the client base off, regardless of the quality of the product. Safety and predictability have, historically, yielded much bigger value long term for AD’s client base.