I know of AAA developers who prefer Blender over the competition now. It has made far more than is necessarily advertised widely.

In the City Museum in Groningen (a city in the north of the Netherlands), there’s of course a part of it dedicated to Van Gogh and expressionist works that he inspired in local artists. There’s this wall dedicated to sunflowers like Van Gogh‘s famous series and while it’s obvious what they‘re riffing on, each has their own unique divergences thanks to the artist. That mockery of Ghibli artists from generative AI could never.

Even before generative AI I saw these arguments in music production that they had to pirate stuff because they couldn’t afford Serum/Abelton Live etc.

Never mind that there have been free digital music tools for decades now. Maybe a little clunkier but money has never been a barrier towards creating art.

There’s joy and personality in imperfection.