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Ton Roosendaal 🔶 @tonroosendaal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Worth reposting once a while. My version of the UX pyramid, a whiteboard picture from the 2.8 Code Quest workshop. Arrows point at what we needed to work on (more).

drawing of a 2d pyramid (triangle) with 5 layers, from bottom up: Functionality, Reliability, --> Usability, --> Fun, Impact.

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Ton Roosendaal 🔶 @tonroosendaal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

With the start of 2026 I will officially step down as chairman/CEO and move to a supervisory role. I wish Francesco and the new board members - Sergey, Dalai, Fiona - a lot of wisdom and success. I hope to enjoy more free time, but also look forward playing a […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Ton Roosendaal 🔶 @tonroosendaal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

One of the projects I will work on in the coming period is to share Blender history info, also to create a 'source of truth' for all variations of Blender facts that go around. Here is the official 1998 announcement that went out for the first public Blender (V1.21) release ever.

Eindhoven, January 12 1998

As a gift to the worldwide computer graphics community, the Dutch company
NeoGeo decided to publish their (SGI) 3D design and animation software. Try it!
It's freeware and a 100% original product.

Being the in-house software of a high quality animation studio, Blender has
proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument.
Use Blender to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations,
business graphics, to do some morphing, or design user interfaces. You can easy
build and manage complex environments.
The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All basic animation principles
(curves & keys) are well implemented.

Is NeoGeo totally insane? Not really!
Some of the most recent and advanced options have been disabled. (Realtime
game design with dynamics, collision detection, actors and sensors. The
plugin system, the library system, network rendering).

Currently Blender is available for SGI with Irix 5.3. (R3k or R4k) or Irix 6.2
(R4k, R5k). You can find it at:

http://www.neogeo.nl

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Ton Roosendaal 🔶 @tonroosendaal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

The amazing Flow producer brought the Oscar for everyone to share a moment of fame at Blender Conference photo booth!

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Ton Roosendaal 🔶 @tonroosendaal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

In Vancouver for #siggraph2025 Ending drinks of Open Source Day was here.

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Ton Roosendaal 🔶 @tonroosendaal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

Starting a History of Blender exhibit in the office. Can easily fill more cabinets... Top left: NeoGeo showreel that gave Blender its name!

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Ton Roosendaal 🔶 @tonroosendaal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2025

Today I've passed the 65th b'day milestone. Feeling blessed that I can experience this in good health and happiness! And now I can enjoy all the eldery people benefits ;)