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	blender3d.org :: Ton Roosendaal
		Ton Roosendaal is Blender's creator, and the co-founder of NeoGeo, the largest 3D animation house in the Netherlands in the nineties.
		Ton founded Not a Number (NaN) in 1998 to market and develop Blender.
		Since 2002, Ton is working full time employed by the Blender Foundation to coordinate Blender projects, ranging from software development to manual publishing.
	www.blender3d.org /cms/Ton_Roosendaal.460.0.html (149 words)

	blenderblog » Archives » Ton Roosendaal Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ton: In January/February 2002 it was, for the people within NaN, already quite clear the company couldn't survive and would close the doors in March.
		Ton: My aim still is to restrict the BF organization to the absolute minimum.
		Ton: I think this topic was covered in previous replies already...So yes, I really think such a scenario is worth pursuing.
	blenderblog.com /archives/2005/03/28/78 (1738 words)

	Ton Roosendaal Leaves Blender Development, Gets Offer of $2.4M from Autodesk at BlenderNation
		Ton further commented that the last seven months took away all the last bit of energy that he had left and that he will spend the money on a house with a private beach on a tropical island.
		This is a chance for Ton and even as i love working with Blender so much, i think he does the right decision.
		Then again, the thought of Ton on his own private island, kinda like Dean Kamen, and probably having beach ladies is interesting… I could go visit him from time to time and have dance competitions.
	www.blendernation.com /2006/04/01/ton-roosendaal-leaves-blender-development-gets-offer-of-24m-from-autodesk (2503 words)

	Blender \| Linux Journal
		The primary author, Ton Roosendaal, says one of his favorite hobbies is throwing extraneous code out of Blender, and it shows.
		They wrote their own in-house 3-D software, ``Traces'', but Ton was not satisfied with it.
		Ton Roosendaal hopes to eventually port Blender to a number of systems, but right now that isn't a priority.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article/3140 (1657 words)

	CGSociety - Elephants Dream
		With ‘Elephants Dream’, Ton would like to show that it is possible to produce a film that can mix it with the large studio’s short film efforts.
		During the internet’s heady early days, Roosendaal had to give up on developing the software himself, as the creditors needed more money.
		Ton worked in a small animation studio where the software developer was in constant touch with the artists, building the tools that they needed and continually improving the software as the project went along.
	features.cgsociety.org /story.php?story_id=3583 (354 words)

	Articles
		After NeoGeo grew to be the largest business of its kind in all the Netherlands, it was bought by another company, and then Roosendaal was free to perfect Blender and share it with the community at large, with the eventual goal of releasing it as Free Software.
		Roosendaal et al are conducting an Internet fundraising campaign to ransom Blender.
		When I showed him the logos the company owner looked at me and asked, 'you're not Ton Roosendaal, are you?' Then he proudly showed me proud almost every product we've had in our e-shop the past years, and his 3D work on the company site.
	software.newsforge.com /print.pl?sid=02/07/23/1713210 (907 words)

	CGTalk - Blender - great potential and bright future
		Very soon after that Ton Roosendaal, a key person behind Blender, started a new effort to "set Blender free", that is, to free Blender source code under a GNU GPL license.
		If Ton was still the unique owner of the IP, he wouldn't have to pay for this, cause this what it's all about.
		Ton must pay, but he hasn't got the money, so the community who knows how much blender is worth it, offered to create the blender foundation which would pay for the sources.
	forums.cgsociety.org /printthread.php?t=16238&pp=50 (5028 words)

	blenderblog » Archives » Questions For Ton Roosendaal
		To help make the interviews more relevant to everyone, I would like to involve the community in the interview process by asking for questions you yourself would like to ask and then compiling a list of questions for the person being interviewed.
		Ton Roosendaal has kindly agreed to be the first person interviewed, and because I know he is extremely busy, I thank him for it.
		There are some conditions to the interview with Ton, in that any of the usual questions that we've all seen before in other interviews won't be sent to Ton.
	blenderblog.com /archives/2005/03/15/76 (424 words)

	Blender Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open-source program for three-dimensional modelling.
		Chaired by Ton Roosendaal, the software's original author, it is funded by donations which are used to employ Roosendaal full-time as Blender's lead developer, to maintain the infrastructure enabling its development and distribution and for other activities.
		The foundation identifies as a wider goal, "to give the worldwide Internet community access to 3D technology in general, with Blender as a core."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blender_Foundation (180 words)

	NewsForge \| Project Orange: Toward the first open source movie
		I talked with three leaders behind the Orange Project: Ton Roosendaal, the Blender Foundation CEO and Orange Project director and lead developer, Bassam Kurdali, winner of Blender's Suzanne Award for Best Animation and Orange Project animation director, and Andy Goralczyk, winner of Blender's Suzanne Award for Best Artwork and art director for the project.
		Roosendaal: We're working on a first Verse integration with Blender already, and it should be ready for test soon.
		Roosendaal: This project really can give substantial co-marketing benefits for companies.
	programming.newsforge.com /programming/05/06/06/2051236.shtml?... (1455 words)

	Blender - NedDocWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1998 richtte Ton Roosendaal een nevenbedrijfje NaN (Not a Number) op, met als doel Blender als compacte, platform-onafhankelijke, en vooral gratis 3D creatieprogramma verder te ontwikkelen en promoten.
		Het herstarten van NaN met een voldoende grote groep programmeurs was niet haalbaar, dus richtte Ton Roosendaal in maart 2002 de Stichting Blender Foundation op.
		Sindsdien is Blender's ontwikkeling onder leiding van Ton Roosendaal voortgezet door programmeurs over de hele wereld.
	wiki.nedlinux.nl /index.php?page=Blender (336 words)

	gmane.comp.video.blender.devel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ton, if there is interest in this, is there any chance you could do a small write-up on how the renderer works?
		Ton corrected the crash on strip duplication with > effect, which I saw once.
		Ton corrected the crash on strip duplication with effect, which I saw once.
	blog.gmane.org /gmane.comp.video.blender.devel (1814 words)

	Blender - Animation for the Appliance Challenged
		Approximately one month later, Ton Roosendaal released Blender for the Alpha, which is now allowing me to complete my dream.
		In the process of doing them, I have discovered Ton uses what I call the "adventure method" of teaching, where he gives one latitude for learning.
		My best advice is to try and duplicate the examples in the manual and not entirely rely on the 'step by step' procedure.
	www.flyingsnail.com /aac01.html (569 words)

	Blender Documentation - Blender's History
		After careful deliberation Ton decided that the current in-house 3D tool set for NeoGeo was too old and cumbersome to maintain and upgrade and needed to be rewritten from scratch.
		As NeoGeo continued to refine and improve Blender it became apparent to Ton that Blender could be used as a tool for other artists outside of NeoGeo.
		In 1998, Ton decided to found a new company called Not a Number (NaN) as a spin-off of NeoGeo to further market and develop Blender.
	blender.active-domains.com /x/x74.html (819 words)

	Renderosity - Gallery, Downloads, Tutorials, 3D Modeling, Models, Textures, Poser Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Throughout this article, Ton Roosendaal, Blender's creator, and chairman of the Blender Foundation, shares a bit about the project, where it's at, and how it all got started.
		Ton Roosendaal: "I've been thinking a lot about the organization/business model of an open source Foundation.
		The goal is in sight, all is falling into place, and Ton seems very confident.
	renderosity.com /index.ez?viewStory=11203&Form.sess_id=47281534&... (1029 words)

	What can Ton Roosendaal make in 3d? - Blender Artists Forums
		Well I think Ton is mainly a programmer, but I think he did a considerable amount of modeling/animation back in the days of NeoGeo: http://download.blender.org/demo/old...iditdoneit.mpg (35MB)
		Ton also builds and displays (or has built and displayed) his presentations for conferences in Blender (as opposed to, say, PowerPoint).
		Well actualy it would be nice is every speaker at the conference would make there presentation in blender, so that they are easy to distribute and everybody can see them.
	blenderartists.org /forum/showthread?t=63268 (547 words)

	mke3.net: Birth of the Outliner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Last night, in another display of hardcore coding brilliance, Ton Roosendaal added a feature to bf-blender CVS that we’d been discussing a bit in IRC - an ‘Outliner’ scene management tool.
		I made a design proposal, from which Ton put this first working version together in the space of a couple of days.
		In this initial stage, it’s mostly useful for visualising, selecting and activating different Blender data for editing, and hopefully as it develops, we’ll see more interactive functionality being implemented.
	mke3.net /archives/2004/10/outliner.html (274 words)

	Computerboekshop: not as big, not as expensive
		TON ROOSENDAAL is Blender's creator, and co-founder of NeoGeo, the largest 3D animation house in the Netherlands.
		In March 2002 Ton Roosendaal started the non-profit Blender Foundation.
		CARSTEN WARTMANN is the author of The Blender Book (No Starch Press) and co-author of The Official Blender 2.0 Guide (Premier Press).
	www.computerboekshop.be /product.php?id=00002589 (171 words)

	dpunkt.verlag
		Blender continues as an Open Source project led by Ton Roosendaal, the original Blender creator.
		Carsten Wartmann is a 3-D designer and writer, best known as the author of The Blender Book (No Starch Press) and The Official Blender 2.0 Guide (Premier Press).
		In March 2002, Roosendaal started the non-profit Blender Foundation.
	www.dpunkt.de /buecher/1-59327-004-6.html (259 words)

	Blender - Animation for the Appliance Challenged - Using Blender on the DEC Alpha
		Kiernan provided the Alpha, sent it to Richard, Mika provided the hard drive, Richard installed a Matrox Millennium, set up the Alpha, and delivered it to Ton.
		Blender for the Alpha was announced on the Blender News Server January 8, 1999.
		On 09 September 1999 (9-9-99) Ton submitted a note to the "News and Chat" section of the "Blender News Server" to this effect.
	www.flyingsnail.com /blenderalpha.html (549 words)

	Bublos.com: Compare Book Prices ›› Official Blender 2.3 Guide: Free 3D Creation Suite for Modeling, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This book is a great example of how an open source community can produce something of real value to its members and how we as a publisher can enable that,” adds Pollock.
		“A crucial part of the Blender Foundation strategy is to establish a solid network of commercial partners around our open source projects,” elaborates Blender founder Ton Roosendaal, who is also co-author of “The Official Blender 2.3 Guide”.
		No Starch Press will ensure that this book is in all bookstores in the US, and will help the book, and Blender itself, reach a wider audience.” ABOUT THE AUTHORS The Blender Foundation is the non-profit organization that maintains Blender under the GNU GPL license.
	www.bublos.com /cgi-bin/cc.bublobot?isbn=1593270410&geog=us (967 words)

	Death Fall \| Blender Road Ends
		A strange e-mail from Ton Roosendaal in the elysiun.com forum marks the end of Blender...
		At least all the plans Ton had a couple of weeks ago and were openly discussed by the community.
		Blender is having an overhaul and Ton Roosendaal yesterday posted a preview version.
	www.deathfall.com /article.php?op=click&sid=881 (785 words)

	mke3.net : October 2004 Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I spent yesterday afternoon walking around the city in a sleepy daze (not due to any interesting chemicals, mind you), which is surprisingly small compared to what I’m used to in Sydney.
		I’ve got museums to peruse, canal rides to take, bicycles to hire, and dinner to have with ex-NaN blenderheads Ton and Bart.
		In a recent explosion of coding from Ton Roosendaal, Blender’s mesh editing tools have had a serious overhaul, making life for modellers roughly a billion times better.
	mke3.net /archives/2004/10 (680 words)

	Jamaica Linux User Group Online - "The Official Blender GameKit" from No Starch Press
		Because the software is fully integrated, no programming is required to actually create and develop games.
		"Blender unleashes the art of game creation for non-programmers and 3D artists," explains Ton Roosendaal, creator of Blender and original producer of "The Official Blender GameKit." "Blender is the ideal tool for beginners because it allows you to create high-quality games without typing in a single line of code.
		Carsten Wartmann is a 3D designer and writer, best known as the author of "The Blender Book" (No Starch Press) and "The Official Blender 2.0 Guide" (Prima Publishing).
	www.jalug.org /theNews/april2003/News_Item.2003-04-17.0554 (533 words)

	Death Fall \| Blender Activities at SIGGRAPH 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Best is still to contact me by email: ton (at) blender (dot) org.
		— At last NaN shareholders accepted Ton Roosendaal's proposal, Blender will be an open source project.
		— A strange e-mail from Ton Roosendaal in the elysiun.com forum marks the end of Blender...
	www.deathfall.com /article.php?op=click&sid=4064 (708 words)

	Blenderbuch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Der enge Kontakt der Entwickler -- allen voran Ton Roosendaal -- mit der Blendergemeinde sowie die schnelle Entwicklung von Blender sorgten dafür, dass Blender bis heute mein Favorit unter den 3D-Programmen ist.
		Die allermeisten Informationen und auch das Handbuch zu Blender sind allerdings in Englisch geschrieben, und es ist für jemanden mit wenig oder nicht fachspezifischen Englischkenntnissen schwierig, einen Einstieg in die 3D-Grafik im Allgemeinen und Blender im Speziellen zu finden.
		Mein Dank gilt natürlich der Firma "Not a Number", die Blender entwickelt hat, hier insbesondere Ton Roosendaal und Daniel Dunbar, die mich auch persönlich unterstützt und motiviert haben.
	www.blenderbuch.de /buch/vorwort.html (425 words)

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