It would not be until early in 1998 that this would change, and Blender would be released as SGI freeware. The name Blender meanwhile, was inspired by a song from the band Yello, who used NatGeo’s animations as the showreel for their album Baby.ĭuring the period where Blender was an asset of NeoGeo, it was not made available to the public and was exclusively in-house software. Much of Blender’s initial design was inspired by a much older application called Traces.
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However, the 1st full version of the Blender software would not be completed until January 1995, a year later. To keep a timeline of Blender’s history, its unofficial birthday is January 2nd, 1994. In its earliest days, Blender was not even available to the public and was initially designed as a tool to help improve NeoGeo’s workflow when creating 3D animation for clients. Was Blender 3D Always Free To Access?īlender was not always a free, open-source application that you could go to the Blender website and download with no questions asked. Still, since then, it has been both free and open source to the global Blender community. The early years of Blender’s existence were either as an in-house application or as shareware, depending on the company under which the software was filed. The Blender foundation was formed to continue Blender’s development as an open-source application. So why is it so good does it remain free, and how did it become free in the first place?īlender 3D became a free-to-use application due to stalled development due to the dissolution of two companies, NatGeo and NaN, in 19, respectively. It is the best free alternative to 3D modeling suites such as Houdini, Maya, and 3Ds Max.
Blender is today regarded as one of the premier applications for various creative tasks ranging from 3D modeling to sculpting to animation.
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