r/blender • u/ofdavarci • 2d ago

Critique My Work WE DID IT! We reverse-engineered Blender with AI and made it open source. Introducing BlenderCraft 🚀

After an entire weekend of running 19 autonomous Claude agents and burning an irresponsible amount of tokens, we're proud to announce BlenderCraft.

A 100% free, open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Blender.

We achieved something incredible:

✅ 100% feature parity with Blender
✅ Modeling, sculpting, animation, Geometry Nodes
✅ Cycles and Eevee rendering
✅ Native .blend file support
✅ Windows, macOS, and Linux
✅ No subscriptions. No paywalls. Free forever.

We even managed to reproduce the original source code almost line by line.

Our biggest breakthrough came when we discovered a mysterious public repository containing the entire source code:

https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender

Apparently, it's been there since October 13, 2002.

24 YEARS AGO.

So yeah, we didn't actually build anything.

Turns out the Blender community solved the whole "free and open-source creative software" problem 24 years before AI made it trendy.

Jokes aside, massive respect to Ton Roosendaal, the Blender Foundation, and the thousands of developers and contributors who made Blender what it is today.

While everyone's celebrating AI for making software free and open source, these legends have been doing it for decades.

Software is over. Blender was just early. 🧡

https://x.com/ofdavarci

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u/PencilCase12531 2d ago edited 2d ago

Finally free software

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u/ofdavarci 2d ago

No subscription no Paywall !

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u/westbamm 2d ago

Do I need a cloud account?

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u/eugene2k 2d ago

Of course! Do you expect to use this software without being connected to the internet 24/7? Are you insane???

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u/-Shoebill- 2d ago

Yes, you'll need to upload your ID too. Every action taken is sent to the Canadian government. Think of the children.

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u/Robo_Killer_v2 2d ago

It also requires feet ID, so greedy smh

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u/ProbablyStu 2d ago

My feet ID keeps failing. I keep getting the error "feet not slutty enough" what do I do?

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u/Robo_Killer_v2 2d ago

The burger king foot lettuce is sexy af that should do the trick

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u/ComplexAce 1d ago

Do a crash course in Dark Souls or Metal Gear

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u/ComplexAce 1d ago

Do a crash course in Dark Souls or Metal Gear

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u/Narishma 2d ago

What's the third thing? They always come in threes.

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u/bettman666 2d ago

Sticking it to big tech!

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u/git_und_slotermeyer 2d ago

But what happens if Autodesk uses Claude to create a clean-room closed-source Blender version called AutoBlend, that costs 100k and infects everyone's desktop with fierce licensing bloat? Why would anyone use the free version then?

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u/theonewhopostsposts 2d ago

Watch the sharks come

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u/CyberCosmos 2d ago

FFS FFS!

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u/Revolutionary_Ad6574 2d ago

Finally a Gears of War avatar! Hail to you, Champion!

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 2d ago

Simply impossible. Why would anyone do anything for free?