1 Year of HDRI Haven
It's been one year since HDRI Haven opened up as a platform of 100% free HDRIs for everyone. It's been a wild ride so far, but I think we're only just getting started :)
There have been a total of just over 2,000,000 HDRI downloads from the site, adding up to about 246 terabytes of bandwidth from approximately 200,000 unique users*.
It's been interesting keeping an eye on Graphtreon too, which tracks the donations on Patreon over time:
A total of about $17,600 has been donated. $1,880 was spent on the server and related web hosting services, $4,250 on travel and equipment, and $3,900 set aside for future costs. The remainder was partly used for my own living costs or paying the recent new HDRI authors, or gobbled up by various banking and exchange rate fees.
I'm happy to note that everything seems to be going pretty steadily! This predictability, thanks to your repeating monthly donations, has allowed me to start working with some more photographers to shoot HDRIs regularly for the site, freeing up some of my time to work on growing the site further and expanding to new horizons.
To celebrate this first year, I thought it would be fitting to re-shoot the first HDRI that I ever made 5 years ago :) here's the new one: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?h=anniversary_lounge
* based on IP addresses alone, probably wildly inaccurate.
Comments (12)
thank you so much. i really liked these hdri's
I haven't done much 3d work over the last year but it was so nice recently to be able to just open my synced folder and grab some backdrops for short animations.
You literally changed the game on student / personal work now you don't have to pay hundreds of dollars of HDRI's you don't even know if is gonna work. It's awesome you can make a living off this kind of business model while helping the entire 3D community so much. Keep it up!
Hello! Is the workflow tutorial still a thing here ?
Yup! Still on the way.
Thanks for the great HDRI´s!
HDRI Haven is doing a great job!!....I wish i could support U in terms of money.......but shall do it soon when I start earning.<3
Thank you for the very interesting and impressive information and of course the past year! And as always: Keep up the great work and spirit! Best wishes - David
Really cool stuff! Love to see how things are changing over time.
*cheers* for the next year too. Hope texture Haven gets to have a milestone like this in the future too.
Hundred years or sto lat how we say it in Poland. Keep up the great work!
Huge congratulations on one year. I appreciate the high quality you're producing but mostly how easy you've made it to find the HDRIs that fit a project. Here's to many more years.