During Blender Conference 2019, Francesco Siddi held a presentation titled “Blender by the Numbers”, sharing interesting metrics and fun facts about the Blender project. Unfortunately, due to technical reasons, the presentation did not get recorded.
This post collects the main points of interest of the presentation, using data up to the end of 2019.
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
