Tim Sweeney, of Epic Games, quote-tweeting from @[email protected]:

«Donor support for the open source Blender 3D modeling tool is increasing! See fund.blender.org for all sponsors which include the industry's top hardware companies, top media companies, top Blender customers, and a guy called Aras from Lithuania.»
Source: https://xcancel.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/2016274867977330714

in reply to a tweet by the Blender Foundation @[email protected]:

«Blender Foundation is thrilled to announce that Netflix Animation Studios is joining the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron.

This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development, to continuously improve content creation tools for individuals and teams working in media and entertainment-related workflows.

https://fund.blender.org/
#b3d #devFund »
Followed by some logos for the Netflix Animation Studios and Blender.
(With the cropped text expanded from the source: https://xcancel.com/Blender/status/2016209378127352253)

@aras

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alternative image description suggestion: a painting of a cat shopkeeper. Surrounded by their wares, sits an orange and white cat behind a low open cabinet similar to a TV bench. Their feet and bum have wiggled itself in the opening —because of course a cat has to occupy an opening if it can— while their paws are leaning on the top. They look quite pleased and at peace.
Their wares are a variety of jars, tins, boxes and other containers, made from a variety of materials. Some more notable objects include a big wireframe basket, perhaps containing yarn?, a drawing of a cat, a maneki-neko statue (one of those Japanese 'beckoning cats' with their paw raised; moving back and forth beckoning in any visitors), paintings of a house and of a lidded pan, something that looks like a bigger than usual brass service bell?, a framed fish, and a large ball.
Above their shop is a wooden sign with Japanese glyphs.

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A video showing off a bunch of wooden kinetic contraptions:

• a shrimp riding a unicycle on a toilet roll as it gets unrolled
• a swing band consisting of shrimps playing guitar, keytar, trumpet and saxophone, as they swing, dance, or spin around.
• a hand cranking the mechanism; you can see the wooden tumbles go up and down as it spins. A lid, with pyramids on top, above the mechanism has the text "what is hidden under the pyramids?". As another hand lifts up the lid, a blue, green and grey alien are revealed, playing some kind of brass wind instrument, turntables, and a keytar.
• a frog with top hat, riding a galloping snail
• a skeleton dancing
• a skeleton with red hearts for eyes, dropping its jaw
• a shrimp behind a wooden table with a cutting board, chopping orange, grey, and grey foods.
• 3 beans with faces and limbs, dancing on top of a can of beans; one has a boombox, while another spins on its head.
• a wooden kitchen table, full with food, with mice swinging and dancing around with the food.
• 3 pumpkins; one playing a drum, another a harmonica, and the third a saxophone
• a cat with a blue wizard har, stirring on a cauldron with a green brew.
• a dog riding a Small Red Car
• A frog with a top hat riding a unicycle on top of a roll of toilet paper being unrolled in its holder.
• a shrimp in a suit, riding a skateboard over a threadmill, hopping over shells, fish, and other things.
• a beaver and a a hedgehog, clapping their paws.
• a bunch of pasta dancing at a rave: rave-ioli. There's a purple turntable and big speakers.

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