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In September 2010 the short film 'Sintel' premiered on the Netherlands Film Festival with a sold out screening in a 450 seat theatre. In September 2008 the open game 'YoFrankie!' was released.

Blender software development movie#

In April 2008 the Peach Project, the open movie 'Big Buck Bunny', was completed in the Blender Institute. This now is the permanent office and studio to more efficiently organize the Blender Foundation goals, but especially to coordinate and facilitate Open Projects related to 3D movies, games or visual effects. Not only was the entirely created using Open Source tools, the end-result and all of the assets as used in the studio were published under an open license, the Creative Commons Attribute.īecause of the overwhelming success of the first open movie project, Ton Roosendaal, established the 'Blender Institute' in summer 2007. This is how 'Project Orange' started in 2005, which resulted in the world's first and widely recognized Open Movie 'Elephants Dream'.

Blender software development software#

Instead of getting funding to bring together software developers, the Blender Foundation decided to start a project to bring together the most outstanding artists in the Blender community and challenge them to make an exciting 3D animation movie short. In first 2.5 years of open source development, it was especially this uniqueness of Blender that has proven to be difficult to organize and maintain.

With Blender originating as an in-house creation tool, the day-to-day feedback and interaction of both developing and using the software was one of its most outstanding features. Blender development continued since that day driven by a team of far flung dedicated volunteers from around the world led by Blender's original creator, Ton Roosendaal. On Sunday Oct 13, 2002, Blender was released to the world under the terms of the GNU General Public License. To everyone's shock and surprise the campaign reached the 100,000 EUR goal in only seven short weeks. The 'Free Blender' campaign sought to raise 100,000 EUR, as a one-time fee so that the NaN investors would agree on open sourcing Blender. In July 2002, Ton managed to get the NaN investors to agree on a unique Blender Foundation plan to attempt to open source Blender. The Blender Foundation's first goal was to find a way to continue developing and promoting Blender as a community based open source project. Since restarting a company with a sufficiently large team of developers wasn't feasible, in May 2002 Ton Roosendaal started the non-profit Blender Foundation. The shutdown also included discontinuing the development of Blender.Įnthusiastic support from the user community and customers couldn't justify leaving Blender to disappear into oblivion. Sadly, due to disappointing sales and the ongoing difficult economic climate, the NaN investors decided to shut all operations early 2002.

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Target was to create a free creation tool for interactive 3D (on-line) content, and commercial versions of the software for distribution and publishing. In 2000 the company secured growth financing by several investment companies.

NaN's business model involved providing commercial products and services around Blender. In 1998, Ton founded a new company called Not a Number (NaN), to further market and develop Blender. In 1995 this rewrite began and was destined to become the 3D software tool we all now know as Blender. After a careful deliberation it was decided that the current in-house 3D toolset needed to be rewritten from scratch. Within NeoGeo, Ton was responsible for both art direction and internal software development. This studio quickly became the largest 3D animation house in the Netherlands. In 1988, Ton Roosendaal co-founded the Dutch animation studio NeoGeo.