The Blender Community

For every type of software, it’s very important to have a community surrounding it that will provide feedback and engage others in using the software. But in open-source software, this is even more important: not only does the community provide feedback, but it also proposes new features, discusses development, creates new features, organizes events, supports the projects, and donates money.

Open-source software communities are also very open-minded. They are usually treated as “fanboys” or “fanatics” by other software users, but once you are a part of one of these communities, you understand why: they’re not only talking about a particular type of software, but they are also usually adhering to a set of ethics as well, and they’re willing to contribute their help for free to improve the software, or even donate funds to have some features developed.

The Blender community includes everyone who uses Blender and shares their experience in forums, websites, blogs, podcasts, and videos. The community helps new users, provides tutorials, writes articles, and raises and donates money to the Blender Foundation. Although learning Blender is not easy, with such a great community behind it to help you and to produce great content for free that you can learn from, it can make the process considerably less difficult!