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Honestly I think a lot of it comes down to Ton being the right personality for leadership in that community. I know of various tech and art people that bounced
by fidotron 3y ago
Honestly I think a lot of it comes down to Ton being the right personality for leadership in that community. I know of various tech and art people that bounced off Blender over the years because of justified problems with it at different times, but Ton didn't let that become a terminal problem and steadily iterated the whole thing to get it to where it is today. It's great to see this being far more widely appreciated than even ten years ago.
- dagmx 3y agoCounterpoint: Ton is also one of the biggest reasons companies and individuals struggle to contribute bigger things to Blender. He’s very difficult to work with, and will quite often say really inflammatory things in other open source communities when he doesn’t understand them. A lot of the Blender redesign and big features is the community pushing over years to say: “this is what we need” and being shot down till someone finally breaks through. Many features stay in forks for ages because they get blanket statements turning it down until they’ve amassed enough hype in the community. See grease pencil and the 2.8+ redesign. I would give the most credit these days to the folks around him who are more willing to listen to the community and work directly with them.