@tonroosendaal.bsky.social
Founder and CEO of Blender. Also using Mastodon: @tonroosendaal@mstdn.social. I only use social media to share. Contact info on blender.org.
Two years of working on Blender Video Sequence Editor: aras-p.info/blog/2025/11...
So far so good, let's continue! #blender #vse
Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 5.0!
ACES, Adaptive Subdivision, HDR, Storyboarding, Geometry Nodes, 588 bugs fixed, and so much more.
📖 Changelog & Download: blender.org/download/rel...
📺 Video Recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEq... #b3d
Oti the penguin showing a good example of "giving back".
Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡
If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.
Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...
#b3d
Announcing Blender Lab: an innovation space within the Blender project, where designers and developers can work together on future-defining projects. Learn more at www.blender.org/news/introdu... #b3d
10.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 107 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
The Stallman Paradox. Food for thought about free/open source:
paragraph.com/@holonic-hor...
Join the official Blender Survey 2025!
Let's get a picture of the community and help shape the future of Blender together. 🧡
www.blender.org/news/blender... #b3d #DevFund
Happy 40th birthday to the Free Software Foundation! Donations welcome: www.fsf.org
04.10.2025 08:28 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A lively and cool interview with me at Siggraph: youtu.be/hx3lnDHeqKs?...
21.09.2025 17:44 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
The amazing Flow producer brought the Oscar for everyone to share a moment of fame at Blender Conference photo booth!
18.09.2025 15:44 — 👍 65 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
During the Blender Conference 2025 keynote, Ton Roosendaal announced to step down as chairman and Blender CEO per January 1st 2026, passing on his roles to Blender COO Francesco Siddi. Watch the presentation at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXm0... #b3d
Press release: www.blender.org/press/blende...
Out NOW! Watch OKGo's latest animated video, co-produced with Blender Studio, featuring the incredible work of @willandersonjr.bsky.social and Lucas Zanotto.
This is an open movie! Download the file and discover how to create your own live procedural animations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzb... #b3d
Blender Conference is just around the corner, which means it's time to vote for the Suzanne Awards! ⭐
Cast your vote for your favorite festival entries and help decide this year's Suzanne Awards winners! conference.blender.org/2025/festiva... #b3d #BCON25
Very cool to see, these thorough design efforts for Blender on tablets. devtalk.blender.org/t/2025-08-18... #b3d
29.08.2025 12:22 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Stand by for the #NerdVote!
26.08.2025 07:39 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0They took out AI
15.08.2025 01:03 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And it's a wrap! #siggraph2025
15.08.2025 01:00 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Blender 5.0 will come with new socket shape semantics, making them more compatible across different node tree types and allowing us to support lists and volume grids in #GeometryNodes in the future. #b3d #devfund
code.blender.org/2025/08/new-...
Join the Blender team at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver this August! Along with a beautiful demo space in the exhibit area, Blender will be featured in various events and presentations. Find out more at www.blender.org/press/blende... #b3d #siggraph25
28.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 60 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1Help make blending on-the-go a reality. code.blender.org/2025/07/beyo... #b3d #DevFund
24.07.2025 15:01 — 👍 337 🔁 80 💬 14 📌 19Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 4.5 LTS!
Vulkan, faster EEVEE, improved compositor, Geometry Nodes, nearly 500 bugs fixed, and so, so much more.
👉 Release notes: www.blender.org/download/rel...
📺 Video recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhA... #b3d
DOGWALK, Blender Studio’s open project made with @blender.org and @godotengine.org, has been released! Play the game for free on Steam and Itch.io and access production assets, documentation and the source of the game by signing up on studio.blender.org #b3d.
13.07.2025 12:17 — 👍 1915 🔁 426 💬 24 📌 20
Even better youtu.be/Z2yBw_r12fU?...
06.07.2025 12:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stunning and thought provoking genAI music videos by KNGMKR youtu.be/q_t3h2AZ0KY Looks like Anonymous meets Ian Hubert.
06.07.2025 12:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
11.06.2025 13:09 — 👍 11930 🔁 6478 💬 296 📌 836
Starting a History of Blender exhibit in the office. Can easily fill more cabinets...
Top left: NeoGeo showreel that gave Blender its name!
Have you worked on a cool project using Blender recently?
Share it at the upcoming Blender Conference 2025 in September! There’s one week left before the call for submissions closes. Check it out: conference.blender.org/2025/call-fo... #b3d #bcon25
Before #blender3d version 2.8 we had the option to create interactive 3D content using the game engine and logic bricks. Since they have been removed there has been talk of adding an interactive mode to #b3d again.
09.06.2025 08:20 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0So to be landed PR: 6 lines added, 21581 lines removed. Buh-bye Collada, we hardly knew ye. projects.blender.org/blender/blen... (this is *not* counting the OpenCollada library itself, which is like 620 thousand lines of code lol).
05.06.2025 18:31 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Something stunning is cooking here in the studio. Andy's new short: Singularity. studio.blender.org/blog/announc... #b3d
05.06.2025 09:58 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow: Graphics Meeting 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany.
May 28 – 31
The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual meeting on Free/Libre and Open Source software for graphics.
community • talks • workshops • meetings
Directions:
We are hosted in Karl-Bröger-Zentrum […]
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