Blender Foundation

The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization that is responsible for the development of the software Blender. The Chairman is Ton Roosendaal.

The Blender Foundation is known among other things produced by it Creative Commons films Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, Sintel and Tears of Steel.

Objectives

  • Providing services for active users and developers of Blender.
  • Maintain and improve the current Blender version using a publicly available source code management system (see Versioning ), which is placed under the GNU GPL license.
  • Deploying and opening up of funds, which serve the organizational goals and a cap on operating costs.
  • The global Internet community to facilitate universal access to 3D technology, with Blender as a core.

History

After the failure of Blender development company Not A Number In early 2002 Blender threatened no longer to be further developed. Since, in the context of the dotcom bubble, a commercial development did not seem realistic to Ton Roosendaal decided to found the Blender Foundation with the aim of Blender as an open source project to further develop and commercialize. Condition of the investors for the release of the source code under an open source license was a one-time payment of € 100,000. As part of the "Free Blender " campaign, this amount was donated in seven weeks by the community, so that Blender on October 13, 2002 came under the GNU General Public License.

Since then, the Blender Foundation has the concept to guarantee by a combination of voluntary and paid programmers with a further development of Blender. Play a decisive role in the regular projects simultaneously create by a collaboration of artists and programmers within a few months a movie or a game and make sure the necessary optimizations in Blender. This is to guarantee that the Blender development remains close to the needs of artists and thus the user.

Projects

  • 2006: In the Orange Open Movie Project at the animated short film Elephants Dream is created.
  • 2008: In the Peach Open Movie Project at the animated short film Big Buck Bunny is created.
  • 2008: is in Apricot Open Game Project, based on the characters from Big Buck Bunny, created the game Yo Frankie.
  • 2010: The Durian Open Movie Project to create an animated short film called Sintel has set itself the goal.
  • 2012: The Mango Open Movie Project published on 26 September 2012, short film Tears of Steel.
  • 2013: The Blender Foundation supported the development of " Caminandes Gran Dillama ", the second short film from the Caminandes series.

Until in 2014 a feature film under the project name Gooseberry Open Movie Project is to be built.

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