| Blender Foundation | |
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| Formation | May 2002 |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Purpose/focus | Development of Blender |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Region served | Worldwide |
| Chairman | Ton Roosendaal |
| Website | Blender Foundation |
The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source program for three-dimensional modeling.[1]
The foundation is noted for having produced the animated short films Elephants Dream (2006) and Big Buck Bunny (2008).[2][3]
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Goals
Chaired by Ton Roosendaal, the original author of the Blender software, the foundation is funded by donations which are used to employ Roosendaal full-time as its lead developer. The foundation's stated primary goal is "to give the worldwide Internet community access to 3D technology in general, with Blender as a core".[4]
As the owner of the Blender web site, the foundation provides various resources to support the community formed around using and developing Blender. In particular, it organizes an annual Blender Conference in Amsterdam[5] to discuss plans for the future of Blender, as well as staffing a booth to represent Blender at SIGGRAPH[6][7], a larger conference concerning computer graphics in general.[8]
Open Movie Project
On 18 May 2006, the foundation's open movie project released its first film, Elephants Dream.[9]
the graphics are very original. On 10 April 2008, the foundation released its latest film, Big Buck Bunny.[10][11][12] Based on the movie, the foundation released its first Open Game project, Yo Frankie!, in November 2008.[13]
The next project is an short action film named Sintel (codenamed Durian).[14]
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Dahna McConnachie: "Open source on the big screen: Matt Ebb tells tales of Elephants Dream", Computerworld, January 15, 2008
- ^ Rui Paulo Sanguinheira Diogo: "Modelling 2.50", Linux-Magazin, 2007/12
- ^ blender.org - Blender Foundation
- ^ http://www.blender.org/community/blender-conference/
- ^ http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x115.html
- ^ http://www.blender.org/news/article/blender-on-siggraph-tradeshow/
- ^ SIGGRAPH. (2009, December 11). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:57, December 14, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SIGGRAPH&oldid=331098486
- ^ "Elephants Dream Released!". Blender Foundation. http://orange.blender.org/blog/elephants-dream-released/. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
- ^ "Project Peach is Pretty Proud to Present…". Blender Foundation. http://peach.blender.org/index.php/project-peach-is-pretty-proud-to-present/. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
- ^ Paul, Ryan (2007-10-03). "Blender Foundation's Peach project begins". Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/10/03/blender-foundations-peach-project-begins. Retrieved 2007-10-13.
- ^ "Premiere of Open Movie Big Buck Bunny". http://www.blender.org/news/article/premiere-of-open-movie-big-buck-bunny/.
- ^ Yo Frankie!. (2009, October 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:59, December 14, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yo_Frankie!&oldid=318427560
- ^ http://durian.blender.org/news/revealed-title-character-design-and-1st-minute/
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