The Blender Institute Office

Bart · July 17, 2007

Ton Roosendaal does a high-paced tour of the Blender Institute offices, complete with a ‘room to put the bad coders’, the ‘STFU corner’ and, of course, a Blender logo on the front door (albeit on the wrong side ;-)

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

41 responses

ccherrett

17 July 2007 at 06:05

I wonder who will be the first to be sent to the STFU corner?

ddwagnz

17 July 2007 at 06:07

lol Awsome Stuff Ton XD

AndyD

17 July 2007 at 06:22

Looks cool. Love the view – and the green wallpaper. Inspirational (the view, not the wallpaper). I suspect if I was on the team the STFU corner would soon be renamed the “AndyD corner” :) Mind you, if I was there I’d spend most of my time outside painting pictures of those boats!!! Australia mostly lacks that sort of historical charm.

Felix_KÃ¼tt

17 July 2007 at 06:26

mmm.. room for the bad coders.. but who the hell is the STFU corner for, is that where sago will be screamed for all the killer jokes for(in the animation i mean) by @ndy and the otheres(mostly ofc. the projects leader @ndy, i guess..)

[j/k ofc.] :)

sciboy

17 July 2007 at 06:44

AndyD: Where the heck do you live? Plenty of history and big ass ships over here in Sydney.

Gat

17 July 2007 at 07:32

Is Ton the only one who actually owns a blender t-shirt? LOL am jk jk!!! No but seriously, is he? ok ok am joking again. Great stuff! I can’t wait to see this on mtv! It be the blender world!

Amped

17 July 2007 at 07:36

Im sorry Ton, it all looks great but I had to watch that video 5 times just to find out what you were saying.

Falgor

17 July 2007 at 07:51

I think I got what he was saying pretty good. All great leaders have a personal voice, like Arnold Scwarzegger! I really like how he said “the stfu” corner. Great to see it. Thanks, Ton. Cool!

Aussiedude

17 July 2007 at 07:52

sciboy:
“AndyD: Where the heck do you live? Plenty of history and big ass ships over here in Sydney.”
Second that! Why do some many people think that theres nothing in australia. Don’t let the pictures of the empty inland australia fool you, theres alot in australia!

Markus

17 July 2007 at 08:36

Nice little impression. A little note: the video does not load for me in IE, had to open firefox.

HÃ¶hrer

17 July 2007 at 08:42

Am I missing something here? What video?

Werner

HÃ¶hrer

17 July 2007 at 08:50

Never mind, the company filter blocked this video (duh)… long live TOR :)

Werner

kram1032

17 July 2007 at 09:08

@Amped:
Thanks, that’s the statement, I needed:
Now, you told me, that I’m not too bad in understanding him,k as I only needed two times :P

Olm-Z

17 July 2007 at 09:23

Yeah … that green wallpaper is … marvelous … :p

AniCator

17 July 2007 at 09:27

I got that ‘leopard’ chair! Well my little brother has got it. IKEA! Hahaha.
And I got that shirt too! I got it on my birthday. (24th of November)
I’m probable going to wear it the next Blender Conference, however I will need to ask permission of school (again) to go to the Blender Conference. Ton really dares, STFU. Haha.
I hope that I’ll one day work there. Or in another animation studio (lol) .
FantaCratia Status Report:
Scene one, two and three have been re-written.

– AniCator

David Revoy

17 July 2007 at 09:55

Great studio , magic view and cool light ; ideal for peace and concentration on a project.
Looks ideal.
Thanks to share the video !

GustavTheMushroom

17 July 2007 at 10:15

lol. YAY! love the finale. the stfu corner. XD

noidtluom

17 July 2007 at 12:36

pity, i’ve always wished i could own my own blender hidey hole like that…nice place… :)

Blackboe

17 July 2007 at 13:16

I had no problem understand him. :P Cool studio.

steve

17 July 2007 at 14:06

This is an “open” project, so the logo is on the right side of the door ;-)

cd38

17 July 2007 at 14:47

I dare anyone to match-move / track this video, yikes!
Nice space Ton. I’ll be in Amsterdam sometime next year, will try to look you up.

jim ww

17 July 2007 at 14:54

Ton is my hero. with the speech impediment, and the accent, he is a challenge to understand, at first, but i think he is worth listening to. i could draw a comparison, between him and the blender interface, both of which present some interesting challenges, initially. i think i am developing a familiarity, and fondness, for both.

thanks for the tour! : )

Alexandre Rangel

17 July 2007 at 15:39

I’m happy for all the folks at the Foundation. Nice place!

atm-matt

17 July 2007 at 16:07

hahahahahahahaha…

“shabby kitchen”

filsd

17 July 2007 at 16:20

thats so cool :). Congrats Ton and the Foundation!

Ronald Patino

17 July 2007 at 16:26

Congratulations Ton!!!!!!! Keep on working hard!!!!

lexi

17 July 2007 at 16:56

isn’t it the talkshow and big brother effect to screaming voices nearby microfones?
I wish i had so a silent place at home to work on my pc and concentrate.

Sergeant Oreo

17 July 2007 at 17:53

I like the new studio a lot. And personally,
I didn’t have any trouble understanding Ton.
The only thing I didn’t like was the corner.

craigomatic

17 July 2007 at 18:12

Nice place, Ton, and I see you’ve prepared a place of honor for Wu when he visits Sago for lunch!

Honestly, I have no problem understanding him the first time. Maybe someday I will be able to visit this place, and see how professionals work together. :)
The architecture reminds me a little of ED, with the rooms that closed in :)

The_MorMor

17 July 2007 at 19:21

Ton is so fucking cool :D The Shut The fuck Up Corner is the coolest thing ever :P

epat

17 July 2007 at 22:44

haha – I can’t watch it – stupid flash plugin on linux keeps crashing on me… had this problem with all flash stuff since I got version 9 of the plugin – strange, other people have commented that it’s more stable??… I think it’s overflowing the internal file ID buffer in firefox for some reason – but why I might never know – shame it’s closed source grrr!!!

@The_MorMor:
there’s a reason why we abreviate things you know…

~epat. :/

Amir Taaki

17 July 2007 at 22:50

haha, Ton is funny. :)

Bmud

17 July 2007 at 23:30

A room for bad coders?? Maybe more like a room for a coder that’s just suffering from A.D.D. or is feeling distracted in general. The separate room is going to be more useful as a thinking tank than a forced isolation chamber. :)

TXRXFX

18 July 2007 at 01:59

Nice digs, Looks well nice space to work, play and basically keep the blender wheels turning!

Thanks for the tour.

shul

18 July 2007 at 07:43

Ohh!!!

This is so great!! and the view is awesome!!

The STFU corner is heated and have a great view.. sounds like people will talk rubbish just to get there..

I envy anyone who will work there (not that my view is not great, but this is Amsterdam baby) – a great place for great people to do great stuff in

Lasphere

18 July 2007 at 09:33

Thats nice Ton :) You only need one more Blender logo to out on the other side of the door ;) Lol

Eckie

18 July 2007 at 13:52

That’s just great!!

Ton, do you give guided tours? :D :D
I live at the other side of the country but I come around Amsterdam every now and then. I’d love to see all those Famous Blender People in action on Peach in that lovely studio…

H.o.m

18 July 2007 at 19:16

Mr Ton Roosendaal your the man and I hop to see this time professional Art work from the new
(Blender Institute Office)

Good Luck…

Kernon

19 July 2007 at 02:18

STFU corner, LMAO!

Looks like a very nice place to get a lot done.

Dragonder

19 July 2007 at 18:06

Hi all,

FYI, the ‘The Blender STFU hangout corner’ allready was mentionned in the 2004 blender Conference program.
It’s a classic :-)

gr.

drag

Quantum Anomaly

28 December 2007 at 00:05

Ha! So this is what it looked like before they pimped it out!

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