Tell me about Blender - Polyloop

crazy wabbit · 19th May 2007, 17:04

Hi, I need someone to tell me how Blender all started and where it is going.
Who does the programming, are they getting paid?

Who owns the program?

Pete Exxtreme · 19th May 2007, 17:07

Usually wikipedia is useful for that kind of question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)

jbshorty · 19th May 2007, 18:53

From what i remember, Blender was the internally written program for a large animating company somwhere in the Scandinavian (?) area. The company went belly up, and decided they had worked too hard to let Blender just get locked up in a file somewhere. So they released it as freeware. And, nobody gets paid anymore for developing it. Every bit of development time is volunteered. That's truly an amazing thing, to see so many talented programmers donating their time on it. There's really not much that Blender can't do. But what you save in $$$, you pay back in a steep learning curve...

shorty

Nichod · 19th May 2007, 21:01

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Originally Posted by jbshorty

From what i remember, Blender was the internally written program for a large animating company somwhere in the Scandinavian (?) area. The company went belly up, and decided they had worked too hard to let Blender just get locked up in a file somewhere. So they released it as freeware. And, nobody gets paid anymore for developing it. Every bit of development time is volunteered. That's truly an amazing thing, to see so many talented programmers donating their time on it. There's really not much that Blender can't do. But what you save in $$$, you pay back in a steep learning curve...

shorty

Not entirely true. Blender's main programmer, Ton is paid for his time managing the operation. But probably 70% of the coding now is volunteer. If you have any questions I'm happy to help. I'm an editor at Blendernation and have been using Blender since it was first available. At one point you had to purchase a key to use it.

jbshorty · 19th May 2007, 22:23

Hmmm. I didn't realize that someone actually did get paid for writing freeware. I wonder where that money comes in from?

Nichod · 19th May 2007, 22:28

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Originally Posted by jbshorty

Hmmm. I didn't realize that someone actually did get paid for writing freeware. I wonder where that money comes in from?

Blender is not freeware. Its opensource. There is a difference.

The money comes from the sale of the Blender book, Blender shirts, etc from the Blender shop. As well as from grants. Europe offers a large amount of grants to open source developers and development.

crazy wabbit · 20th May 2007, 04:23

I think it is amazing the path that blender has taken, The images produced with it rivals that of other software. Will it continue on its path or stop?

Is there a large user base?

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19th May 2007, 18:53	#3 (permalink)
jbshorty proud to be a nurb Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: only in your mind Posts: 1,319 Images: 1	From what i remember, Blender was the internally written program for a large animating company somwhere in the Scandinavian (?) area. The company went belly up, and decided they had worked too hard to let Blender just get locked up in a file somewhere. So they released it as freeware. And, nobody gets paid anymore for developing it. Every bit of development time is volunteered. That's truly an amazing thing, to see so many talented programmers donating their time on it. There's really not much that Blender can't do. But what you save in $$$, you pay back in a steep learning curve... shorty

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jbshorty proud to be a nurb Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: only in your mind Posts: 1,319 Images: 1	Hmmm. I didn't realize that someone actually did get paid for writing freeware. I wonder where that money comes in from?

20th May 2007, 04:23	#7 (permalink)
crazy wabbit Now, I learn animation Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,369	I think it is amazing the path that blender has taken, The images produced with it rivals that of other software. Will it continue on its path or stop? Is there a large user base?