Blender
Blender is a free 3D animation studio. It includes tools for modeling, sculpting, texturing (painting, node-based shader materials, or UV mapped), UV mapping, rigging and constraints, weight painting, particle systems, simulation (fluids, physics, and soft body dynamics and an external crowd simulator), rendering, node-based compositing, and non linear video editing, as well as an integrated game engine for real-time interactive 3D, and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics 3D Modeling 3D Rendering Scientific/Engineering Video Non-Linear Editor Games/Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Python C |
Recent releases
- 15 Dec 2011 06:39
Release Notes: A new GPU Accelerated rendering engine (Cycles), camera tracking, ocean simulation, dynamic paint, some new addons, and fixes for 180 bugs.
- 24 Oct 2011 22:56
Release Notes: 12 bugfixes for 2.60.
- 19 Oct 2011 21:00
Release Notes: 3D audio and speaker objects. Animation system improvements. Vertex group modifiers and weight painting tool improvements. Internationalization and support for non-western fonts. Game Engine Navigation Meshes. Many improvements to add-ons and over 165 bugs fixed.
- 14 Aug 2011 07:02
Release Notes: 3D mouse support and new custom keymap code were added. 140 bugs were fixed since 2.58a.
- 09 Jul 2011 21:03
Release Notes: Over 25 bugs and a few regressions were fixed.
Recent comments
2.60a appeared on October, 24th. You probably mean 2.61.
Best of the Best
Blender is not only the first and only fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D, game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility, but it's also global phenomena in many ways! On short: The best open source software ever!!
Blender dependencies
www.blender.org/cms/Ge...
As of januar 2006 the dependencies are:
Python 2.3: www.python.org
libjpeg: www.ijg.org
libpng: www.libpng.org/pub/png/
zlib: www.gzip.org/zlib/
OpenAL: www.openal.org (for Linux/Windows)
SDL: www.libsdl.org (for OpenAL)
Quicktime: developer.apple.com/quicktime/
ODE: opende.sourceforge.net (also available from blender/extern/ode!) Blender ODE implementation not currently maintainted
Blender 2.40 has been released
Blender 2.40 has been released in december 2005
Use for animating
This is very impressive software. 3D animation is a very complicated technology and this software did a wonderful job encapsulating all the minor details.
I like how it can import .wings files and .3ds files all into one scene. This is the perfect environment for putting together a sophisticated 3D animation. I especially like the options of creating a variety video files as the final output.
I would suggest using Wings3D to create any complicated subjects to animate. Together, these products are as good as any professional product that I've used.
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