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Fidel Destro

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Ton Roosendaal, Blender's creator, has been pushing for it to become more of a platform. His vision is for there to be an entire ecosystem of Blender-based apps with individual purposes and UIs, all developed on top of it, and I'm pretty sure the Extension Platform is the start of that.

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Fidel Destro's avatar Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social
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...but this also starts to solve a lot of the maintenance and discoverability issues that have hung around add-ons for their lifetime. Many people don't know they're there at all. People argue several should be standard parts of Blender (Node Wrangler, notably).

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Brian Kolm's avatar Brian Kolm @briankolm.bsky.social
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Making a Blender-based app that's a fake Adobe After Effects, most of the power is there all ready. Just having a 2d scene that's more than grease pencil, matte video without going to a seperate window, nesting comps, able to drag things around by eye instead of sliders, etc. It would by amazing.

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