Blender is a free and open-source suite for 3D creation, used for modeling, animation, rendering, simulation and video editing. Development began in January 1994 under Ton Roosendaal at the Dutch animation studio NeoGeo as an in-house tool, and it was released publicly later in the decade. After the company set up to market it failed in 2002, a crowdfunding campaign raised enough money for the source code to be released under the GNU General Public License, and the Blender Foundation took over its development. The Blender Institute has produced open movies such as Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny to test and promote the software. Independent artists, studios and researchers use Blender widely.
Before and after
- 1994Launch of AllMovie
- 1994Founding of Partnership for Peace
- 1994Establishment of Joshua Tree National Park
- 1 January 1994Founding of European Economic Area
- 2 January 1994Release of Blender
- 5 February 1994Markale massacres
- 28 February 1994Banja Luka incident
- 22 April 1994Death of Richard Nixon
- 6 May 1994Construction of Channel Tunnel
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- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
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