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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 02, 2009
- Total Downloads: 259,508
- Downloads last week: 408
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 122 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If you've ever thought about making professional-quality animations but decided not to because of the cost of the software, your excuse just got up and walked out the door. Blender is a free, open-source 3D rendering program that puts the power of the medium back into the hands of the artist.
Blender features a laundry list of animation essentials that can be broken down into categories: Interface, Modeling, Rigging, Rendering, Animation, UV Unwrapping, Shading, Physics and Particles, Imaging and Compositing, and Real Time 3D/Game Creation. The interface, though loaded with complicated tools, is remarkable for neither obscuring nor interfering with the image being worked on. A brief sampling of tools and functions includes 3D paint for vertex weighing, polygon meshes, 2D and 3D procedural brushes, edge rendering, textures, collision simulation, and support for around two dozen 2D and 3D file formats. Extras can be added with Python scripting, and since it's open source, many scripts can be easily found for download in the user forums.
Blender is not for the faint of heart. Learning to use it is time-consuming and best done by following the detailed tutorials available on the Blender Web site. There is also an extensive online Blender community, making familiarization with the app less painful--if not pain-free. However, none of these detracts from the overall experience or usefulness of the program, and we strongly recommend it for advanced users.
Publisher's description
From Blender :Blender is the open-source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. It is available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.Mostly a bug-fixing release, but it also adds a few new features like subsurface scattering (SSS) support and two new composite nodes.
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Version: Blender 2.49b
"Free great modeling/animation/game maker"
Pros: easy to use u can find a lot of good tutorials on youtube or just looking on a search engine for them, it can make great high end models and animating looks great. Game maker runs on Python programing code and is easy to get hang of.
Cons: the texturing feature is kinda odd and weird to learn if u have no patiance
Summary: Probably best 3d modeler and animator out there thats free
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Version: Blender 2.49b
"can not get it to work,it runs but i get a black screen"
Pros: do not known ,dose not work with my vista .
Cons: do not known ,dose not work with my vista
Summary: do not known ,dose not work with my vista
can not get it to work ,it runs but i get a black screen ,and nothing else happens -
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Version: Blender 2.49b
Pros: Once you learn the program it's easy to do almost anything you want with it!
Cons: Very difficult to learn unless you find good tutorials or have time to read a lot of books
Summary: Was really hard to learn for me, then i found some tutorials from a guy on youtube, named Taconene tutorials were Blender for Beginners, and i learned so much from him and he breaks everything down so just about anyone with commen sense could learn ... read more >>
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