Blender and USD

Next level open source I/O

Francesco Siddi - GTC2021

Blender is

• Open source 3D creation. Free to

use for any purpose, forever.

• Free since 2002

• Online

• 12M downloads per year

• Striving to work with a content-

driven development model
Blender is
supported by
• Individuals

• Development Fund

from 300 people (2018) 

to 5600 + 50 corporations

• The industry
Blender is
a public project
• Organized in modules

• Module handle contributions from

the community (individuals and the
industry)

• Modules oversee projects

USD project
• Initial integration of the USD library
for Blender 2.8 (export only) in 2019

• bf-usd mailing list established

• Tangent Animation worked on USD

I/O, released the code to the public
in 2020

• NVIDIA starts integration efforts

• Code under review for inclusion in

Blender 3.0