Blender Foundation

Blender Foundation
legal form	nonprofit organization
founding	May 2002
founder	Ton Roosendaal
Seat	Amsterdam , Netherlands
main emphasis	Software development
Website	blender.org/foundation/

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

The foundation is known for the Creative Commons films it produces, Elephants Dream , Big Buck Bunny , Sintel and Tears of Steel .

aims

• Providing services to active users and developers of Blender.
• Maintaining and improving the current Blender version with the help of a publicly accessible source code management system (see version management ), which is placed under the GNU GPL license .
• Provision and development of funds that serve the organizational goals and cover operating costs.
• To provide universal access to 3D technology, with Blender at its core, for the global internet community.

history

After the failure of the Blender development company Not A Number at the beginning of 2002, Blender threatened not to be further developed. Since, even in the context of the dot-com bubble , commercial development did not seem realistic, Ton Roosendaal decided to set up the Blender Foundation with the aim of further developing and marketing Blender as an open source project. The investor's condition for releasing the source code under an open source license was a one-off payment of 100,000 euros. As part of the "Free Blender" campaign, this amount was donated by the community in seven weeks, so that Blender came under the GNU General Public License on October 13, 2002 .

Since then, the foundation has pursued the concept of guaranteeing the further development of Blender through a combination of volunteer and paid programmers. The regular projects play a decisive role here, which through collaboration between artists and programmers, create a film or game at the same time within a few months and make the necessary optimizations in Blender. This is to guarantee that the blender development remains close to the needs of the artist and thus the user.

Projects

• 2006: The Orange Open Movie Project creates the animated short film Elephants Dream .
• 2008: The animated short film Big Buck Bunny is created in the Peach Open Movie Project .
• 2008: In the Apricot Open Game Project , the game Yo Frankie is created based on the characters from Big Buck Bunny .
• 2010: The Durian Open Movie Project aims to create an animated short film called Sintel .
• 2012: The Mango Open Movie Project released the short film Tears of Steel on September 26, 2012 .
• 2013: With the help of the Blender Foundation, two short films from the Caminandes series have been developed which, in contrast to the other Blender projects, are not primarily used to improve Blender.
• 2015: Under the project name Gooseberry Open Movie Project , a feature film entitled Cosmos Laundromat is developed, the first chapter of which was published on August 10, 2015.
• 2017: In May 2017, the Blender Foundation released a trailer for a planned computer animation film based on Agent 327 . The three-minute trailer is intended to look for investors for a feature-length film.
• 2019: In April 2019, the Blender Institute of the Blender Foundation published the short film Spring.The short film was created with the alpha version of Blender 2.80 to help develop the stable version.

Web links

Commons : Blender Foundation  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Orange Open Movie Project. Retrieved January 12, 2014 . 
2. ^ Peach Open Movie Project. Retrieved January 12, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Apricot Open Game (Yo Frankie!). Retrieved January 12, 2014 . 
4. ^ Durian Open Movie Project. Retrieved January 12, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Blender Open Projects. Retrieved January 12, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Blender Foundation announces Caminandes, surprise open movie. Libre Graphics World, October 2, 2013; accessed October 3, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Hans-Joachim Baader: Caminandes: Second short film episode published. In: www.pro-linux.de. November 29, 2013, accessed January 23, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Online premiere: August 10th. BlenderNation, accessed August 20, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Agent 327: Operation Barbershop trailer
10. ↑ Blender Foundation: Teaser for Agent 327: Operation Barbershop - blender.org ( en ) Blender Foundation.
11. ↑ Spring - Blender Open Movie .
12. ↑ Blender Cloud - Spring .