Ton Roosendaal

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ton Roosendaal
Occupation	Software Developer
Date Of Birth	Mar 20, 1960(1960-03-20)
Age	64
Birthplace	Netherlands
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Pisces

Ton Roosendaal Biography

Ton Roosendaal is one of the most popular and richest Software Developer who was born on March 20, 1960 in Netherlands, Netherlands.

Roosendaal studied Industrial Design in Eindhoven, before founding the animation studio “NeoGeo” in 1989. It quickly became the largest 3D animation studio in the Netherlands. At NeoGeo, Roosendaal was responsible for software development, in 1989 he wrote a ray tracer called Traces for Amiga and in 1995 he decided to start the development of an in-house software tool for 3D animation, based on the Traces and tools that NeoGeo had already written. This tool was later named “Blender”. In January 1998, a free version of Blender was released on the internet, followed by versions for Linux and FreeBSD in April. Shortly after that, NeoGeo was taken over by another company in parts. This was when Ton Roosendaal and Frank van Beek decided to found a company called Not a Number (NaN) to further market and develop Blender. NaN’s business model involved providing commercial products and services around Blender. In 2000 the company secured growth financing by several investment companies. The target of this was to create a free creation tool for interactive 3D (online) content, and commercial versions of the software for distribution and publishing. Roosendaal moved to Amsterdam in 2002.

The Blender Foundation’s first goal was to find a way to continue developing and promoting Blender as a community based open source project. In July 2002, NaN investors agreed on a plan to attempt to publish Blender under an open- source license using the Street Performer Protocol. The “Free Blender” campaign sought to raise 100,000 EUR as a one-time fee so that the NaN investors would agree on open sourcing Blender. The campaign reached this goal in only seven weeks. On Sunday 13 October 2002, Blender was therefore released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. After this success, Ton Roosendaal began to coordinate the development of Blender by volunteers as chairman of the Blender Foundation.

Ton Roosendaal Net Worth

Ton Roosendaal is one of the richest Software Developer from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ton Roosendaal 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ton Roosendaal (Dutch: [tɔn ˈroːsɛnˌdaːl] ; born 20 March 1960) is a Dutch software developer and film producer. He is known as the original creator of the open-source 3D creation suite Blender and Traces (an Amiga ray tracer which was the forerunner of Blender). He is also known as the founder and chairman of the Blender Foundation, and for pioneering large scale open- content projects. In 2007, he established the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where he works on coordinating Blender development, publishing manuals and DVD training, and organizing 3D animation and game projects.

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In April 2008 Project Peach, the open movie Big Buck Bunny, was completed in the Blender Institute. In September 2008 the open game Yo Frankie! was released. The third open movie, Project Durian, also known as Sintel was released on 30 September 2010. On 10 January 2011 he announced a fourth project, titled Tears of Steel, released in 2012, and Project Gooseberry, entitled Cosmos Laundromat, released in Summer 2015.

Facts & Trivia

N'fa Ranked on the list of most popular Software Developer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Ton Roosendaal celebrates birthday on March 20 of every year.

Why did Blender become free?

Unfortunately, investors felt they were losing too much money and decided to halt all NaN’s operations, including the development of Blender. It was during this time that Ton came up with the idea of a free version of Blender, but he still had to tackle one big question, “Where would he get the capital?”

Which country made Blender?

Initially based in Roosendaal’s attic, NeoGeo grew rapidly, garnering awards and becoming the biggest company of its type in the Netherlands. Roosendaal wrote the first source files titled “Blender” on the 2nd of January, 1994, still considered Blender’s official birthday.

Is Blender a non profit?

The Blender Foundation is a nonprofit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source 3D content-creation program.

Will Blender be free forever?

Blender is free, forever. This freedom is what makes the GNU GPL license so powerful and it is why it’s much more than “open source”. The license simply prevents anyone to put restrictions on Blender. That protects users as well as everyone who contribute to Blender.

How many GB is Blender?

Graphics: 2GB RAM, OpenGL 3.3. Storage: 500 MB available space.