October 23 2009

Re: Normality's 50.000 Downloads

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A quick follow-​​up to last week’s post about Nor­mal­ity reach­ing 50.000 down­loads: While I’m happy that the soft­ware is so pop­u­lar and that it is being put to good use in stu­dios around the world, what I’m not so thrilled with is the ratio of down­loads to donations.

So far only 13 (!) of the roughly 55.000 down­load­ers have con­tributed to say thanks and to sup­port con­tin­ued devel­op­ment of the soft­ware. Alas, that’s less than 0.1% of all down­load­ers.
Now I never expected to get rich by releas­ing a dona­tion­ware After Effects plug-​​in… but it would def­i­nitely be nice to at least be able to off­set my host­ing costs.

Main­tain­ing and sup­port­ing free soft­ware costs time and money that I am no longer able or will­ing to put in at this rate.

June 25 2009

Accepting donations

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A cou­ple of users have sug­gested that they would like to donate some cash for my efforts of releas­ing the free Nor­mal­ity plug-​​in for After Effects and some free shaders for men­tal ray.

For this pur­pose I have setup a Pay­pal dona­tion account. So if you like my soft­ware, find it use­ful for your own work and would like to see updates and other free shaders/​plug-​​ins in the future, please con­sider donating.


I develop the soft­ware, offer free tuto­ri­als and fix bugs mostly in my free time and it is a lot of work.

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