

On January 1, 1998, Blender was released publicly online as freeware. In the same year, he wrote a ray tracer called Traces for the Amiga, and in 1995 he decided to start the development of in-house tools for 3D animation based on Traces and tools that NeoGeo had already written.įun fact Number1: The name Blender was inspired by a song, by the Swiss electronic band Yello, from the album Baby, which NeoGeo used in its showreel It quickly became the largest 3D animation studio in the Netherlands.Īt the time, there was a Japanese video game developer with the same name, but they were not related. Roosendaal studied Industrial Design in Eindhoven before founding the animation studio "NeoGeo" in 1989.


It all starts with Ton Roosendaal, a Dutch software developer and now a film producer. Hey, Sam, from Threedee here today, we’ll discuss why Blender is free and how it is free.
