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Anthropic has joined the Blender Development Fund as a patron to support the Blender project as they continue to develop
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Hacker News is also working with art and design programs to support curricula that involve creative computation.
Key facts
- The first three such programs are Art and Computation at Rhode Island School of Design, Fundamentals of AI for Creatives at Ringling College of Art and Design, and the MA/MFA Computational Arts
- The Blender developers have created an MCP connector, which is now officially available for Claude
- AI can also help shoulder the parts of the creative process that eat up time by handling repetitive tasks and eliminating manual toil
- And using Blender’s Python API, the connector lets Claude add new tools directly to Blender’s interface
Summary
Creative professionals look to technology to expand what's possible in their work. Today, with a coalition of partners including Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and Splice, they're releasing a set of connectors—tools that let Claude work alongside the software creative professionals rely on, so creatives can extend their reach. Ableton grounds Claude’s answers in official product documentation for Live and Push. Adobe for creativity enables users to bring images, videos, and designs to life, drawing from 50+ tools across Creative Cloud apps including Photoshop, Premiere, Express, and more. Affinity by Canva automates repetitive production tasks across pro creative workflows - such as batch image adjustments, layer renaming, and file export - and generates custom features directly in the app.