Honorary Degree Profile – Ton Roosendaal

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Ton Roosendaal received an honorary doctorate in technology at the Leeds Metropolitan University yesterday. Here’s a short first interview with him.

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    • Trawler

      Hear, hear!! Well said! Blender is all of our “in-house software.” Congrats!!

    • Fury_jin

      Maybe they should hire Andy as suit advisor.
      Is there any other open source honor in this event?

    • Cathy & India

      A hearty congratulations to our great friend Ton, from the Aussie girls, Cathy & India! Well done!

    • flagus

      Congrats to Ton. He really deserves it. I’m sure that the all community is happy for him.

    • 3sie3wiel

      Hear hear! Congrats Ton!
      Te he….

    • afecelis

      Way to go Ton! :D You deserve it, and many other honorary degrees.
      prost!

    • TxRx

      Ton, you talk the talk AND walk the walk.
      Respect is due, nice one.

    • EmailMeForMore

      Ton:

      Many people WANT to read what you wanna say. You should write many pages.

    • http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com Kernon

      Very inspiring words, thanks!

    • http://speed-codings.de cperrin88

      Very nice words Dr. Ton.

      I’m wondering whether there is a reason why he wears such a colourful dress.

    • http://www.kajimba.com gholm

      excellent stuff.
      love to see a bit of respect had.
      Long time in the coming.

    • Toontje

      I think we have to refrain a little bit on the “Dr.” title thing. I know the Dutch well enough to say that they think that titles are wayyyy old school. But hey, he does a really cool Dr. House impression LOL.

      Congratulations Ton. Thank you again for your generosity. Blender really speaks for itself. It doesn’t need a multi million euro marketing campaign for it to get noticed.

    • denHaag

      Congratulations Ton!

      A much-deserved award for all devotion to the amazing project that is Blender, and an excellent job of “reprezenting” Open Source!

      And if you wear that awesome hat to SIGGRAPH, watch out; I just may try to steal it! :) I look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!

    • http://www.reynantem.blogspot.com Reyn

      I really am a big fan of Ton’s philosophy. congratulations, Ton. ^_^

      -Reyn

    • invertedNormal

      next up, honorary doctorate in business and management!

      never saw this coming, but it’s well overdue

      Congrats, Ton!

    • razvan

      great guy!!

    • NollieFlipX

      You´re awesome Ton! Long live Blender! and congrats man!

    • EagleWing

      You’re an insperation to us all! Congrats!

    • http://digitaldraw.wordpress.com/ aws357

      The whole place looks like Hogwart :)

      And it’s not Dr. House. It’s Dr. In-House.

    • http://etyekfilm.hu endi

      Ton: the creator of the best GUI ever, and the best 3d software.

    • http://www.dustyghost.com dusty

      Bravo! Well said Ton!

      Congrats again man!!

    • Nixon

      Big Cheers and Congratulations for Ton!!!
      You really deserve it!
      THX to all the community and Devs!

      Blender really is a kick-ass tool 4 multi purposes, I Love it :)
      Party on!

    • Lucas da Costa Dantas

      What ? What Blender is that ?
      I still wondering about the software ,not yet for better try but,,
      to go for a learn to all that phyton programming now to the Open Software ,not so sure .
      I may be better on do some interface code and interaction .
      But so far ,none of the Phyton knowledge to start ,
      what it backs to use and i keep on thought for do something about than only art .

      You there still must to do it a better project ,
      and dont forget about the software .

      Its now looks i miss some part of the tv series,
      i guess its just like to be like this anyway ,the marketing for the software .
      To the community talk .

      Iam Lucas da Costa Dantas and this was the newest post on Blender Community .
      Thanks for watching .

    • http://www.legendarypixel.com GGentzel

      Congratulations Ton and thank you for all the wonderful gifts you have given us.

    • MartianR

      Well done Ton !
      Very cool, very appropriate, and absolutely well deserved

    • donya

      congratulazioni Ton!

    • teo_greengage

      it’s cool that the robe os ORANGE just like blender’s logo color scheme

    • KidTripod

      Congrats Ton!

    • http://home.deds.nl/~mp/ ysvry

      i see our Ton is still at the funny hat club, :P, Congrats for the recognition abroad and in the university world.

    • http://[email protected] Jocuri Barbie

      Well said. I will recommend your weblog