Your part in it
If a CG Cookie course, a Superhive sale, or an Orange Turbine add-on changed something in your work, we'd like to hear what.
What came of it.
Since 2008 we've made things for people who use Blender: lessons at CG Cookie, a marketplace at Superhive, add-ons at Orange Turbine. This page counts what came out of that, and most of it was done by the teachers, creators, and students, not us. Where we don't have a number yet, we say so instead of making one up.
The numbers
$53.4M
paid to creators
What creators have earned from their sales on Superhive since it opened in 2014.
$53,392,977 as of Nov 6, 2026. Superhive market stats.
6,557
creators
People and studios who sell their own work on Superhive.
6,557 as of Nov 6, 2026. Superhive market stats.
1.1M
customers
People who have bought at least one thing on Superhive.
1,134,936 as of Nov 6, 2026. Superhive market stats.
5.8M
items sold
Add-ons, models, materials, and courses sold on Superhive, counted one per sale.
5,778,303 as of Nov 6, 2026. Superhive market stats.
18
years teaching Blender
CG Cookie published its first Blender tutorial in 2008 and hasn't stopped.
Counted from 2008.
Still counting
students taught
People who have taken a CG Cookie course or tutorial.
Not published yet. Will come from CG Cookie records.
Still counting
hours of instruction published
Total running time of the lessons CG Cookie instructors have published.
Not published yet. Will come from CG Cookie records.
Still counting
lessons completed
Lessons that students watched or worked through to the end on CG Cookie.
Not published yet. Will come from CG Cookie records.
Still counting
given in scholarships
The value of free and discounted CG Cookie memberships that students actually redeemed.
Not published yet. Will come from CG Cookie redeemed coupon records.
Giving
Three different groups of people gave. We list them separately and don't add them up.
Creators on Superhive chose to send $1,021,222 of their own sales to the Blender Development Fund.
$1,021,222 as of Nov 6, 2026. Superhive market stats (excludes CG Cookie's 90-day contribution).
Autotroph and CG Cookie gave an amount we're still counting directly to the Blender Foundation.
Not published yet. Will come from Autotroph and CG Cookie accounting.
People who bought Humble Bundles we were part of sent an amount we're still counting to charity.
Not published yet. Will come from Humble Bundle partner reports.