Netflix Animation Studios is the latest Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund, pledging significant financial support to the open-source 3D creation platform. Blender’s open-source software has grown from an open-source, grassroots tool into a professional-grade CG suite used across animation and VFX. Recent Netflix productions that used Blender during production include In Your Dreams, Leo, Maya and the Three, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Darin Grant, SVP global technology at Netflix Animation Studios, added:Netflix Animation Studios’ corporate membership with Blender reflects our ongoing support for open-source software in the animation community. This collaboration marks a milestone in the relationship between open-source software and large-scale animation production, perhaps even accelerating Blender’s adoption across the global studio ecosystem.