Ton Roosendaal's Vision for Blender

Ton Roosendaal is the creator of Blender, the largest open source tool for 3D creation. Originally developed as an in-house tool, the software now is being developed online by a community of developers led by Ton Roosendaal at blender.org.

Ton studied Industrial Design in Eindhoven, before founding the animation studio NeoGeo, where Blender was being developed as the in-house tool. In 2000 he moved to Amsterdam the Netherlands. In 2007 he founded the Blender Institute, where he’s still working full time on crowd-funded Blender Open Source and Open Movie projects. Ton is single and he lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

History of Blender

Watch a video of Blender as it was in 1992!

Blender projects in 2018 to look forward to