Blender (3D Animation And Game
Maker)
Blender is the free and open source 3D
creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging,
animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video
editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python
scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these
are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to
individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and
responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are
available in the showcase.
Blender is cross-platform and runs equally
well on Linux, Windows, and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to
provide a consistent experience. To confirm specific compatibility, the list of
supported platforms indicates those regularly tested by the development team.
As a community-driven project under the GNU
General Public License (GPL), the public is empowered to make small and large
changes to the code base, which leads to new features, responsive bug fixes,
and better usability. Blender has no price tag, but you can invest,
participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: Blender is your
own 3D software.
Blender Feature
Photorealistic Rendering, blender now
features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers
stunning ultra-realistic rendering. The built-in Cycles rendering engine
offers: GPU & CPU rendering, Realtime viewport preview, HDR lighting
support, Permissive License for linking with external software
Fast Modeling, blender’s comprehensive array
of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.
Blender’s modeling tools include: Keyboard shortcuts for a fast workflow, N-Gon
support, Edge slide, collapse and dissolve, Grid and Bridge fill, Python
scripting for custom tools and add-ons
Realistic Materials, with Blender’s new
rendering engine the possibilities for materials are endless. Key features are:
Complete Node Support for full customization, Physically accurate shaders like
glass, translucency and SSS, Open Shading Language (OSL) support for coding
unique shaders
Fast Rigging, transforming a model into a
posable character has never been easier! Blender offers an impressive set of
rigging tools including: Envelope, skeleton and automatic skinning, Easy weight
painting, Mirror functionality, Bone layers and colored groups for
organization, B-spline interpolated bones
Animation toolset, whether it’s simple
keyframing or complex walk-cycles, Blender allows artists to turn their still
characters into impressive animations. Blender’s animation feature set offers:
Automated walk-cycles along paths, Character animation pose editor, Non Linear
Animation (NLA) for independent movements, IK forward/inverse kinematics for
fast poses, Sound synchronization
Sculpting, Experience the joy of sculpting
organic subjects using the built-in sculpting feature set of Blender. Sculpting
in Blender includes: 20 different brush types, Multi-res sculpting support,
Dynamic Topology sculpting, Mirrored sculpting

Fast UV Unwrapping, easily unwrap your mesh
right inside Blender, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto
the model. Blender allows for: Fast Cube, Cylinder, Sphere and Camera
projections, Conformal and Angle Based unwrapping (with edge seams and vertex
pinning), Painting directly onto the mesh, Multiple UV layers, UV layout image
exporting
Full Compositor, blender comes with a fully
fledged compositor built right in. That means no more exporting to third party
programs, you can do it all without leaving the program. The compositor comes
with: Impressive library of nodes for creating camera fx, color grading,
vignettes and much more, Render-layer support, Full compositing with images and
video files, Ability to render to multiLayer OpenEXR files, Multi-threaded
Amazing Simulations, Whether you need a
crumbling building, rain, fire, smoke, fluid, cloth or full on destruction,
Blender delivers great looking results. Blender’s simulation tools include :
FluidRealistic water and fluid simulations, SmokeBillowing smoke with flames
and scene interaction, HairBeautiful wafts of hair that blows in the wind and
interacts with collisions, ClothAmazingly realistic cloth simulations for
clothing and environments, Rigid Body PhysicsMakes any object destructable and
collidable, ParticlesFor creating things like rain, sparks and shrapnel
Game Creation, Included in Blender is a
complete game engine, allowing you to create a fully featured 3d game right
inside Blender. The game engine includes:Ability to port your models to any
third-party game engine, Create or code your own game logic, Full Bullet
Physics integration, Python scripting API for advanced control and AI, Support
for all OpenGLTM dynamic lighting, toon shading, animated materials as well as
Normal and Parallax Mapping, Playback of games inside Blender without compiling
or preprocessing, 3D spatial audio using OpenAL
Camera and Object tracking, blender now
includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import
raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in
your 3d scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs. The Camera and
Object Tracker includes: Auto and manual tracking, Powerful camera
reconstruction, Real-time preview of your tracked footage and 3d scene, Support
for Planar tracking and Tripod solvers
Library of Extensions, With a large
community of enthusiasts and developers, Blender comes loaded with a vast array
of extensions that you can turn on or off easily. Some existing extensions include:
Generators for trees, terrain, ivy and clouds. Fracture Objects. 3D Printing
Toolbox. Rigify meta-rigging system. Import and Export format support for
AfterEffects, DirectX, Unreal Game Engine and more!
Video Editing, Blender even comes with a built-in
Video Editor. The Video Editor allows you to perform basic actions like video
cuts and splicing, as well as more complex tasks like video masking. The Video
Editor includes: Live preview, luma waveform, chroma vectorscope and histogram
displays, Audio mixing, syncing, scrubbing and waveform visualization, Up to 32
slots for adding video, images, audio, scenes, masks and effects, Speed
control, adjustment layers, transitions, keyframes, filters and more.
File Formats, Blender comes packed with
import/export support for many different programs. Including: Image, JPEG,
JPEG2000, PNG, TARGA, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, TIFF. Video
AVI, MPEG and Quicktime (on OSX). 3D Alembic, 3D Studio (3DS), COLLADA (DAE),
Filmbox (FBX), Autodesk (DXF), Wavefront (OBJ), DirectX (x), Lightwave (LWO),
Motion Capture (BVH), SVG, Stanford PLY, STL, VRML, VRML97, X3D.
Flexible Interface, novice and advanced
users will love the ability to customize their layout completely. From simply
splitting their viewport, to fully customizing it with python scripting,
blender works for you. Blender’s interface also offers: Consistency across all
platforms, No disruptive pop-up windows, Crisp text (support for retina on OSX)













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