The open movie projects are a large reason for Blenders success. It moved the focus from "Deliver developers pet feature" to "What do we need if we want to prod

The open movie projects are a large reason for Blenders success. It moved the focus from "Deliver developers pet feature" to "What do we need if we want to produce this kind of a film short." It put the focus on Blender as a tool for delivering actual film instead of various disconnected features. Roadmap focus is one the harder things for a creative OSS tool to get right.