I Made a Donut in Every Version of Blender 

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.

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 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🙏👍

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

I tried Blender 2 just a few years before 3 came out and "maybe i should just press more buttons" was literally my experience - it was notorious for being obscure even at the time and it seemed it was not made for anyone but die-hard experts.

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

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'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!

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

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

Man - it brought me to tears. What a gift. And the video is amazing, great storytelling skills

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.

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

Very interesting to see the old blender versions!

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

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 ✨

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

This video is so good! Great work!

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

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

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

Your video made me cry and realise how greatful I am for blender and all the people behind it.

Happy birthday Blender! Thanks for being awesome!

Amazing video and story. Thanks for creating

Really cool editing style

I first learned Blender in the early 2.x days because it was installed on the lab computers in my high school. It was so unintuitive compared to now. The community has really put in sooo much work.

Amazing as always Noggi! The editing The storyline Perfect💯

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

The donut made every version of me in Blender.

the last part of the video literally made me cry

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

Beautiful video. Your editing has really improved!

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

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??

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

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....

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

5:17 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.

The version numbering system has changed over the years. Proprietary software was releasing a new major numbered version every year or two; while open source software typically released a new minor numbered version about twice a year to every year. This created the unfair perception that open source software is developed slowly, while in reality major commercial software often released with very small functional changes year to year. In open source software, major numbers were reserved for fundamental, incompatible changes. Eventually one by one many open source projects adopted regular major-version number releases, and i think Blender has done so now as well. I think some of the 2.x major redesign versions might be good to check out. I was one of the people who crowdfunded initial open-sourcing of Blender now what about 20 years ago, been occasionally using it since 2001. Didn't have sticky tooltips issue on my TNT2 and then Geforce2mx, no, from what i remember, i think it might have gained some incompatibility with new drivers.

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

I never realised that I started using blender after its large update, and that 3d technology REALLY improves.

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.

fun+Good explanation=noggi, thanks bro

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

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

"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?

the 1st one and 2nd one are great! perfect for vaporwave art.

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

thats so cool, happy new year!

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

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

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

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

This video is art. Thank you!

the ending gave me goosebumps

Blender is so amazing it´s breathtaking

Excellent Storytelling Noggi, eye opening.

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

God those kakyoin models are fabulous.

Blender is such a beautiful piece of program.

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

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

2:11 lol using blender to explain that analogy visually

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.

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

What an amazing tool, free for everyone

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

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

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

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

This is an interesting concept

Cool video noggi

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

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

Awesome Video! Especially liked the part on Version 1.0 on SGI Irix systems. I actually have an original SGI O2 with an old version of blender installed. Would have loved to see you model a Donut in "Traces" (Blender's predecessor) on an Amiga :)

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

2:15 as someone who started with Blender pre 3.0, Q U I T E .

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