Blender for Animation and Film-Based Production

Chapter 2

History of Blender

BLENDER'S HISTORY IS CLOSELY connected to Ton Roosendaal, currently chairman of the Blender Foundation, where some open-content projects have been developed using Blender as the main tool.

The Blender Institute was founded in the summer of 2007 by Ton where he coordinates with Blender development and organizes some training DVDs on animation projects.

Ton founded the animation studio NeoGeo between 1988 and 1989, which quickly became one of the most important animation studios in the Netherlands. There, he was responsible for software development and in charge of the art department, when he noticed the NeoGeo's in-house 3D tool was too old to maintain and upgrade. A new rewrite of this tool was proposed by Ton, becoming ...