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."[1] It has been suggested that Suzanne (Blender primitive) be merged into this article or section. ... A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... 3D portrait Ton Roosendaal is the lead developer of the free 3D application Blender, and chairman of the Blender Foundation. ...
As the owner of Blender's website, the foundation provides various resources to support the community formed around using and developing Blender. In particular, it organises an annual Blender Conference in Amsterdam to discuss plans for the future of Blender, and mans a booth to represent Blender at SIGGRAPH, a larger conference concerning computer graphics in general. Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 741,329 (1 August 2006) Agglomeration - 1. ... SIGGRAPH 2005 official logo SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group in Graphics) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. ...
Blender is a cross-platform, open source 3D modeling and animation suite developed and maintained by the BlenderFoundation.
Blender is available on all major platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux) and due to being open source has been ported to most operating systems including portable systems such as Pocket PC.
Blender is also 'open source' which means that coders can add features directly to the core code base or even rewrite core pieces of functionality, or expose additional parts of the internal API to the python scripting base.