

It is the Blender Foundation's responsibility to do such a thing. Right now, the Blender Foundation watches and takes care of it. This proved that the Blender source code would be published. On September 7, 2002, the collected funds was given notice to the public. dollars.) On July 18, 2002, Roosendaal put money into a Blender funding campaign-in order to collect donations. The creditors, people who have other people oweing money to them, agreed to sell out Blender under the laws of the GNU General Public License in exchange for a one-time payment of 100,000 Euros (102,000 in U.S. The program was published as shareware until NaN went bankrupt in 2002. He wanted to make and show off the program to the public.

Ton Roosendaal founded NaN in June of 1998. The song Yello, which is from a song album called Baby, started an idea of the name "Blender". It was used, for example, to make the short movies Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny and Sintel.Ī Dutch animation studio called NeoGeo created Blender as an in-house application. It is available for many operating systems, for example Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. Blender is a free, open source 3D computer graphics program.
