DillonGoo Studios, a studio specializing in anime art style productions have just announced they are joining with the Blender development team to bring their custom anime focused version of Blender (featured here). In addition to bringing most of the custom technology in their Goo Engine Blender fork directly to the main version of Blender, they will also be creating a new Anime style short film to dogfood the new NPR renderer.Details from the Dillon Goo blog announcement:This is the big moment weve been waiting for! The last few years of working on Goo Engine have all been leading to the moment where we can finally integrate the NPR features weve been researching into Blender official! Well be contributing to the development and design ourselves, and guiding the direction of NPR in Blender.OPEN MOVIE ANNOUNCEMENTAlongside the NPR Engine development, well also be producing a short Open Movie project to test out the build!All Open Movie assets will be released here on Patreon!NOTE: Character in the image is not related to the Open Movie. Well be starting preproduction on it in early 2025!Key LinksGoo Engine Blender NPR AnnouncementNPR Prototype Branch on Blender BuildsYou can learn more about DillonGoo Studio, Goo Engine and future Anime / NPR rendering in Blender in the video below. This video was sponsored by TechSmith the makers of Camtasia (which is what I use to create all of my videos). You canlearn more about Camtasia hereand use code GAMEFROMSCRATCH at checkout for 15% off.