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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · 4d

Happy 40th birthday to the Free Software Foundation! Donations welcome: www.fsf.org

Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software

With your support, the FSF can continue our advocacy for years to come. Build the road ahead with us and donate $40 or more today.

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · 17d

A lively and cool interview with me at Siggraph: youtu.be/hx3lnDHeqKs?...

The Man Behind Blender, Ton Roosendaal | Bad Decisions Podcast #69

YouTube video by Bad Decisions Studio

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Blender @blender.org · 21d

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...

Keynote — Blender Conference 2025

"Keynote" by Ton Roosendaal, Francesco Siddi at Blender Conference 2025 The traditional opening of Blender Conference. – Learn more about Blender Conference 2025 at…

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Blender Studio @studio.blender.org · Sep 3

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

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Blender @blender.org · Sep 1

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

Blender Conference 2025 — conference.blender.org

Blender Conference 2025 - The event of the year celebrating the Free and Open 3D Creation Software

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Very cool to see, these thorough design efforts for Blender on tablets. devtalk.blender.org/t/2025-08-18... #b3d

2025-08-18 iPad/Tablet Design Workshop

Attendees: Andy Goralczyk Brecht Van Lommel Dalai Felinto Jonas Holzman Julian Eisel Pablo Vazquez Sergey Sharybin William Reynish Some participants were present the entire time, some for specific ...

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · Aug 26

Stand by for the #NerdVote!

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · Aug 15

They took out AI

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · Aug 15

And it's a wrap! #siggraph2025

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Jacques Lucke @jacqueslucke.bsky.social · Aug 8

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-...

New Socket Shapes — Blender Developers Blog

Changing the meaning of socket shapes for Blender 5.0.

code.blender.org

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Blender @blender.org · Jul 28

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

Blender at SIGGRAPH 2025 — Blender

The Blender team will attend SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver, and participate in a number of activities.

www.blender.org

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Blender @blender.org · Jul 24

Help make blending on-the-go a reality. code.blender.org/2025/07/beyo... #b3d #DevFund

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Blender @blender.org · Jul 15

Blender 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

4.5 LTS — blender.org

With 2 years of updates, full Vulkan support, and quality-of-life improvements, Blender 4.5 LTS is every Blenderhead’s best friend.

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Blender Studio @studio.blender.org · Jul 13

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.

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · Jul 6

Even better youtu.be/Z2yBw_r12fU?...

Cinematic Promised Land: A Creator Economy Prophecy

YouTube video by KNGMKR

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · Jul 6

Stunning and thought provoking genAI music videos by KNGMKR youtu.be/q_t3h2AZ0KY Looks like Anonymous meets Ian Hubert.

POST-SCARCITY BLUES

YouTube video by KNGMKR

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∙ ᴘᴀᴜʟɪɴᴀ ∙ @iamthepaulina.bsky.social · Jun 11

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · Jun 16

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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Blender @blender.org · Jun 9

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

Blender Conference 2025 — conference.blender.org

Blender Conference 2025 - The event of the year celebrating the Free and Open 3D Creation Software

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BlenderDiplom @blenderdiplom.bsky.social · Jun 9

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.

Re:Imagining a 3D and Interactive Internet

Hubs is an open-source interactive browser based 3D meeting space. It is now fully integrated in Blender 3D, which is using an extended v...

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Jun 5

So 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).

Sign in - Blender ID - blender.org

The Blender ID is a unified login system for all services around Blender.

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Ton Roosendaal @tonroosendaal.bsky.social · Jun 5

Something stunning is cooking here in the studio. Andy's new short: Singularity. studio.blender.org/blog/announc... #b3d

Announcing 'Singularity' - Blender Studio

Let's set out on an epic space adventure to put our painterly tools to the test!

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Libre Graphics Meeting @lgm.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · May 27

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 […]

[Original post on post.lurk.org]

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Blender @blender.org · May 28

📣 Blender is looking for people to join the team! Read our new job postings and get in touch - let's collaborate!

➡️ UX Designer | Dev Manager | Render and Graphics Engineers ✍️

#b3d #cganimation #rendering #uxdesign #jobs #apply
www.blender.org/jobs/

Jobs — blender.org

Join a team of passionate developers redefining the future of 3D creation.

www.blender.org

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