Blender Studio is the creative unit of the free open source Blender project. Established in the Netherlands in 2007 by producer and computer graphics pioneer Ton Roosendaal, the studio has released highly successful open movie projects, including Big Buck Bunny, Sintel, the Caminandes series and award-winning shorts Cosmos Laundromat and Spring. The studio is being funded by members of the studio.blender.org website. This keeps the team independent, enabling them to challenge themselves with creative-technical targets to help Blender users and developers.