Blog
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Say Hello to Autotroph 🦠
From its inception, CG Cookie, Inc. has grown and introduced new Blender ventures. To eliminate any confusion between the educational platform and the company, we’re excited to rebrand as Autotroph, Inc.
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Using Mixed Licenses for Blender Products
One of the things that we’re seeing more frequently in the Blender community are products that are a mix of code and non-code parts. For these kinds of products, the GPL isn’t really sufficient for covering all of the different incorporated parts. Those elements are better served with a different class of licenses.
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How to Convert Your One-file Blender Add-on to an Add-on Package
You have an add-on and you’re ready to put into a proper folder structure so you can more easily share, maintain, and sell it. This article gets you from here to there.
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Let’s Talk about Theft, Piracy, and DRM
Continuing our series about Blender, Blender add-ons, and the GPL, it’s inevitable that the discussion will eventually swing into the direction of this question: “What if someone steals my work?”
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How to Make Your Blender Add-on GPL-Compliant
A comprehensive nuts-and-bolts how-to on what exactly needs to be done to make sure your add-ons comply with the GPL.
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How to Sell GPL Software (and avoid being a jerk about it)
Whenever we work with open source software, this question invariably comes up, “How do you make money?” This is especially true when it comes to Blender add-ons, which do need to comply with the terms of the GPL. Let’s get into it.
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Teaching Adobe to Blend
Blender is everywhere and even big graphics companies are paying attention. Customized workshops are one way to get everyone up to speed.
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Automated Custom Manufacturing with Blender
Every now and then, you get a project that’s so different and so cool that it just demands to be shared with the world. The project I’m about to share with you is exactly one of those.
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Orange Turbine at SIGGRAPH 2022
Orange Turbine is going to be at this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver, Canada! And we’ll be giving a workshop on Blender’s Geometry Nodes in the LABS program.
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Orange Turbine is the New Home for CG Cookie’s Blender Add-ons
The tools section of the CG Cookie business is moving over to our newly created sister company, Orange Turbine, which is a specialized consulting firm that helps companies integrate Blender into their production pipelines.