Blender really is a gift. Especially if you consider how expensive programs like zbrush are.

The ending almost brought a tear to my eye. Blender's story is almost unbelievable. From a clunky underdog everyone laughed at, to the most widely used tool in the 3D industry. PS. Only about 1 in 2200 users contribute to the Blender Dev Fund. If we want to surpass some of it's competitors we need that ratio higher!

Little fact: Blender itself was a rewrite for a older program they made, Traces from 1989, so technically, its far older than 1993.

Blender 3.0+: simulation, geometry nodes, key shapes, ray tracing, animations, physics, better shaders, asset libraries, geo tools etc etc Blender 2.0: apply rot

There was a time where big releases doesn't come with a full number change. 2.5 was a bigger jump for Blender that from 3.6 to 4.0. The same for the jump between 2.79 to 2.8 (the biggest jump for Blender until now).

Blender Guru’s donut tutorials are honestly *so* helpful. I’ve done two of them so far, and I’m really impressed at how he innovates in each new video.

I really admire how diligent the developers are with the documentation, tutorials and preservation of history. They could have just made it open source and have people try to figure everything out from the source code but they went the extra mile to make sure you know why every feature exists and it's well explain with tutorials and demo files and as much as possible is kept recorded even if it's no longer supported. I don't know anything about coding but I know what the dependency graph is and when it underwent a major change and why that's important. I have been fallowing it's development for almost 15 years now I don't make all that much but it's been quit a journey to watch it develop.

Thanks to the all of the people who supported and donated to blender in the most crucial time of it's life🙏👍

When Ton open sourced blender, he probably didn't imagine this, but today it's one of the most successful and inspiring open successes! Ty Ton

I read that due to Blender's approach to data storage, the latest version should still be capable of opening files from the earliest version. I'd be really interested to see this in action with the v1.0 doughnut you created!

The most shocking thing was somehow the logo of 1.0. But being real, blender has such a lovely story.

The fact that blender is also free with all these features is completely insane.

This video really puts into perspective how awesome Blender really is and it’s long journey, and I am so thankful to the Lord that it is available for everyone to use to this day. Thank you Noggi for this and great job with the donuts!

I was expecting a video about struggling to make donuts, not a touching history story. Well done. That was beautiful.

By the way here's a couple of things I think that might help because I used to work for making donuts When frying the tops and the bottoms typically gets browner than the middle it has to do that with the fryer because they float in the grease that they're cooked in. The middles always tend to be later shaded in the tops and bottoms. Here's one I'm not sure how many people know. Cake donuts are extruded from a batter and they dropped directly into the fryer so they are perfectly round and Taurus shaped. However a cake donut tends to be rougher on the surface just in general they're not typically smooth. I think it's kind of like the way you'd see a falafel fried or cornbread. Raised donuts are different because the process they go through. Typically you have a sheet of dough that you cut using a six-sided cutter on a roller. The hole is round but the donut itself is hexagonal. It saves dough. Still the same thing when frying the tops in the bottom is typically are browner and the middle of lighter shade because it's also raising /expanding at the same time it's cooking. Now on frosting. Most donuts are dunked into the frosting and then turned over and put onto a tray to cool a little bit. Also regular hot frosting doesn't shine that much after cooling. Also for things like sprinkles added on, they are maybe a little bit more randomized as far as being flat to the surface. EGD stick up a little bit sometimes. When it comes to glaze donuts they are typically run under a shower of hot glaze that's rather liquid think syrup like in like a parallel set of holes. So sometimes you get stripes across the donut itself at least on the edges. There's a definite direction to them. . That glazing also accounts for the puddles you see on some of the clumpier apple fritters for instance. Some however are literally frosted by hand like apple turnovers. The flaky triangle shaped confections. They also are multi-layered as well so they can be the flakiness that they are. However when it comes to cakes those are typically all hand done. Or sometimes in the case of machine assistance deer almost typically round cakes and very smooth and very precise. By the way when the glaze cools it typically turns a whitish color because it's almost pure sugar

I never realised Blender was that old. The first time I ever found out about Blender's existence was maybe in around 2013. I heard about it because I was using 3DS Max, and some friend of mine told me about some free program where you can do similar things. It's crazy that it was an actual program way back in 1995 actually.

The old blenders are a beast to be wrangled. It's no easy task going backwards, because nowadays blender is so much simpler, really from 2.8 onward. The entire material workflow was completely different and strangely difficult before then.

I love blender, its community, and its history. Without all of it, I wouldn't have dreamed of becoming the artist I am today.

Those was a lot more inspiring than I thought it'd be

The history of this software is really fascinating, it's great that you showed how Blender has developed over the years

I'm so happy for Ton for his dream becoming a reality and I hope there were more people like him. But in general I love the blender community because they love to share and help idk its a good place

Great video! Really takes me back. I started using Blender as a junior in high school back in 2001. I remember the free Blender campaign and all that! Great memories!

Blender is a testament to why all software should be *free*, not just in price but in philosophy. What has grown around Blender is beautiful. Can you imagine a world where all creative tools were made the same way that Blender is made??

this is such a good video! really goes to show that blender isn't just a 3d software, but a community of enthusiasts

When version 1.0 had came along nobody saw ton's vision but the people knew what he imagined and now its a software used for almost every single 3d project and even many many 2d animations

Once I get disposable funds, I'll definitely dedicate a decent chunk towards Blender on a monthly basis. Those lads deserve it.

woulda made more sense to do like 1.0, 2.0, 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 3.0 and 4.0 because the whole versioning system changed with 3.0 :P

It's a beautiful video. I started learning blender on 2019, in the 2.8 version. Thanks all the people who donate and support blender. It's an amazing program.

Blender is amazing software and its free, thanks to the founder who not abonden it. That was very interesting video thank you.

Great video. I loved how you explored the main features of every version and talked about the history of the company But I really wish you’d allot some time to comparing the results! Cheers ✨

5:17 Radiosity is a global illumination (indirect lighting) algorithm that caches dependencies between surfaces which the geometry is divided into by volumetric cubes. You can then calculate the impact each section of geometry has on each other section and add them all up for infinite light bounces without a huge amount of overhead during runtime as most of the work is done ahead of time when the dependencies are generated.

Since the specific songs in the video are not mentioned in the description I wanted to share the one at 0:25. "on n on" by Felix Johansson Carne. Dude has a lot of excellent chill music

This video is all over the place and confusing

Happy birthday Blender! Thanks for being awesome!

The guys who allowed it to survive and for free are chads. Imagine how many people learn about 3D art and how many create advanced cartoons or architectual stuff. Sadly steam limited the number of versions, 2.0+ got removed and only 3.0 and 4.0 are available to use. If you want older, you need to find the archive Page

3.0 to 2.0 was too big of a jump 2.8, 2.5, 2.0 would be more realistic :P

Very interesting to see the old blender versions!

The ending gave me goosebumps. Gave me the motivation I needed to continue my Blender journey. Thank you.

Beautiful video!! Blender is the epitome of open source software, other companies should take notes lol

So good video bro ! I really like all points and the way u explain things to us!

The donut made every version of me in Blender.

the last part of the video literally made me cry

No, cycles was added much much earlier, at least 2.79 has cycles

The transitions alone made me subscribe and the cool story telling and yk, the 3d modeling part.

Amazing video and story. Thanks for creating

This video is so good! Great work!

Amazing as always Noggi! The editing The storyline Perfect💯

Thanks Noggi for this awesome video of blender and donuts. 🙂🙌 u got a subscriber. 🤘🏻

fun+Good explanation=noggi, thanks bro

I remember it on the Amiga given away on a cover disk, I couldnt get into it as I was used to using Imagine.. now many years later I find myself hooked on this wonderful tool....

Glad to hear the back story of Blender, its also very inspiring to never give up.

As someone who started using Blender with 2.79, the changes since have been absolutely crazy.

Beautiful video. Your editing has really improved!

I started with v2(.48) and had to actively force myself a few years ago to adapt to left-mouse select after remapping it for years. Right-click select was just the way to go, man xD

What a nice and optimistic story

5:54 The "OopsWindow" came on even before blender 2.0, an was essentially their version of undo xD. Hence the name "oops" when you made a mistake. Pretty cool part of history and old software imo. Ps: So there actually kinda is a way to undo!

Epic Video!! Learned a lot about Blender !! Thanks man

I think Blender 2.7 represents a pretty solid milestone. It was the defacto version for a while, and it predates the 2.8 redesign.

"I don't know if Windows even existed back then" ...so what you thought Windows 95 was just a funny number they picked for no reason?

Blender has come such a long way! I absolutely love how much it's improved!

Really cool editing style

thanks for the video. Love blender and hystory of technologies so twice amazing

What an amazing tool, free for everyone

i love how i thought the 1993 in the thumbnail was drawn

Well done, more Blender users need to donate to the fund too, that will massively help us all 👍😊👍

"No one can deflect that 20-meters emerald splash!" - Kakyoin

I haven’t used blender in about a decade, feels so nostalgic and weird watching this

I actually managed to run blender 1.0 on Windows 98 SE, so you can still run it on original hardware if you have a pentium III machine around.

I wish you had done this with first and last version of each big number release. Usually when 3.x.x rolls to 4.x.x, there are a lot of updates there in that step.

You really did 2.0 dirty with this, the later versions of 2.0 were very good. I actually preferred them to 3.0 for a long time as I was used to the UI, unfortunately, all the new rendering engines etc. are on 3.0 so I had to make the switch

i like how you dropped the 1.0 donut like a piece of garbage, made my day 🤣

I have made a donut every time since the original... I wish I still had them all to put together in a render

This video is really, really, really, *really* well done.

2:11 lol using blender to explain that analogy visually

Blender is so amazing it´s breathtaking

Oh my, the nostalgia i get seeing 2.0, i have never enven seen the 2000’s

God those kakyoin models are fabulous.

"I'm looking for sub" "I'm not sure if I like..." Not sure if I'm imagining this, but it feels like a clever allusion after the "add/find a life" bit

As somebody who uses blender semi-frequently and has been doing so for about 3 years… I’ve never done the donut tutorial.

At 0:19, I'm already shaking from the amount of enjoyment I gain from this style of editing, crazy video...

This video is art. Thank you!

I think it’s interesting how old blender is because I always think about Blender as a new and modern software but I guess it’s actually ancient. Aged well tho

Excellent Storytelling Noggi, eye opening.

Good Lord, Blender 2.0 looked so old they might as well have started from scratch to create 3

A person who doesn't care much on monetization and makes some advanced software for completely free, with no ads. This person is a legend.

Blender has allowed scores of us from all over the world to have access to 3d software. It is truly marvelous.

Blender is such a beautiful piece of program.

The realization Blender is as old as I am...

I came to see Noggi making donuts in every version of blender, but ended up with appreciating blender even more than before. Like I really want to come to Ton Roosendaal and hug him or something. Maybe I'll make a project myself using blender to appreciate the one behind blender like Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

I have zero idea what half of the things hes talking about do but blender is still fun

Cool. Now do one in the actual original version of blender, Traces for the Amiga

thats so cool, happy new year!

Came to see janky 1990s software making donuts, stayed for an *excellent* history lesson. Good stuff.

this is literaly art

This is an interesting concept

The best Blender youtuber right now in my opinion

bro my dyslexic ass read the title as "I made every donut version in blender"

You have only 85k? BRO YOU DESERVE 800K! You are underrated man. Btw great video,

huh what a cool story, and my god your effects/transitions etc is next level. Can I ask though, did v1 have smooth faces? or was that just to show the difference? (just curious) if you haven't already, I'd like to see a little more about this. Starting with the oldest, I'd like to see you do similar, but with every major change, and how your model is better or easier to make :)

Bro theres a video showing up in middle of the screen when finally I could see the final results