Blender Software
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| Developer: | Blender Foundation |
| License: | Open Source GNU / Free |
| User Rating: |   (89 votes) |
| Offical Website: | www.blender.org |
| Platform: | Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.2 and later, Linux 2.2.5 i386, Linux 2.3.2 PPC,FreeBSD 6.2 i386,Irix 6.5 mips3,Solaris 2.8 sparc |
Blender Review
Among free 3D design software packages, Blender is fully functional one. With Blender user can do 3D modeling, character rigging, shading, animation, rendering, physics and particles, imaging and compositing. Blender is free open source 3D content creation under the GNU General Public License. Blender is available for several operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
As Blender is open source, which anyone can download and use for free, donation is one source of fund to keep the project alive and further development.
User Experience with Blender
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February 17th, 2011 4:25 pm
Compared to commercial software, it’s harder. Blender coders still have a Linux mindset- much of the ‘help’ is as nerdy as the butt-ugly interface. And the help is scattered.
Incredibly, the idiots STILL exclude a manual [which is online only, growl!].
But it is very powerful, free, and, to judge by number of books etc., it’d be worth your overlooking that interface. Just remember, while it’s in no danger of winning any interface beauty prize, once you learn it, it works as well as best of its competition.
And it seems to be on a roll, evolving faster than its competitors [now that AutoGreed has bought out everybody but Modo, Maxon and NewTek, innovation has gone from very slow to
glacial speed.
So, overall, being free, Blender is more worth the pain that studying any 3D app brings.