 conferences like being back with with a great big family it's been great to finally see all of us now face-to-face this is the new venue this is amazing all the rooms and just that people can walk around and interact and there's a lot of positivity I get to put faces and conversations with the developers that I only usually work with over the internet and they get to interact with the users of the software which you know there's really no point in working on the software unless there's users people here are so talented it's an incredible pool of unique people from all different types of industries I've been developing for Blender for about 10 years lately I've been working on a new bevel node for geometry nodes I'm a 3d modeler I'm dedicated to create go see and cute isometric scenes in Blender I always use a lot of details in my sleeve like pile of leaves, pumpkins, mushrooms I gave a talk on the add-on I'm working on which is a crowd simulation add-on I hosted the education meeting and I just finished the podcast about the silent forces behind Blender I use Blender for all my artworks I did a talk yesterday about my journey with Christmas Hill how this tool changed my whole career Blender is allowing me to do absolutely everything in one software play with it on the entire way through the beginning of my pipeline to the end of it it does everything we needed to do it also allows us to add things that we need so in our studio we have a custom build of Blender that we've actually been building because Blender makes it possible Blender means freedom you we have access to the code we can add against and digging into the code they are already doing all the good stuff I love Blender how often things get shared in the Blender community is I feel like unique compared to other communities with 3d software and I can actually meet them and shake their hand and say congratulations you've changed my life because you've released a plugin that made my life easier I sort of see it as a conversation between users like me you know nothing about programming and then the developers who see how people are using it and they're very good at pivoting and saying oh maybe we should make a tool about this and that backwards and forwards just improves the software very very quickly we just grow together and I think it's amazing and important about this kind of meetings in real life also sometimes when you see something on internet and people said this was made of Blender the people are really proud of Blender as if it was their own creation the community is the reason that Blender is growing we are currently not the follower anymore or the little kid on the block Blender is leading in ways and people always try to pinpoint and say hey that moment is when Blender finally became mainstream well honestly people were seeing is already every you know part of the way eventually I think it will become the standard it's something that is way too powerful to ignore I love the fact that Blender grows and becomes more and more standard but I also still like the fact that Blender is like an outsider so it's it's two opposite things that co-exist it wouldn't be for Blender I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today it's been with me since the beginning of my artistic career I'm a 22-year-old girl so Blender has 20 years so it's half of my life so a lot is happening in the world of education a lot of schools are picking up Blender as their main tool for teaching imagine right now the kids who are 15 now what they're gonna do in five years really gonna catch all of us by surprise I'm excited about the idea that we can and we have the possibility to do something to leap into the future and think of what is it if we want to make a tool for the next decade we have the passion right for this we really care and there is no money business there's no shareholder there's nobody with a hidden agenda apart from the passionate people who want to make amazing things for other people and that makes it that we are trusted by the industry thank you all for coming and see you next year