EpicGames donates 10k euro (13.5k usd) to Blender Development Fund. Is support for more FBX work + epic-game-style nagivation controls. #b3d Ton Roosendaal (@tonroosendaal) July 5, 2014

Quote Mostly we are trying to get a solid pipeline for exporting from Blender to UE4. So far things are going really well and we hope to see some cool stuff in the near future.

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Epic Games are starting to become real champions for us with porting Unreal Engine and bringing the new Unreal Tournament to us, but now they are also sponsoring the Blender project with funds too.13.5k USD isn't exactly a small amount to donate either, but considering it's directly related to making it better to work with for Unreal Engine developers it's not surprising.Epic's Alexander Paschall also made this comment It's always great to see more bigger companies give funds to open source programs, and just goes to show how important Blender is.