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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 26, 2007
- Total Downloads: 236,069
- Downloads last week: 803
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 120 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. Version 2.45 includes unspecified updates.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.45 includes unspecified updates.
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User reviews of Blender 2.45
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 120 votes
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Version: Blender 2.45
Pros: good
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Version: Blender 2.45
"The best of the best, I truly recommend this piece of software art"
Pros: I've been using this software for a long time, eversince it was commercial... It became open source and now It is even better. There isn't really much to say about the greatest free modeling software. It beats the crap out those commercial 3d software. And the BEST THING about it is that there is enormus amount of tutorials out there (try to google "Blender Noob to Pro" :D)
Cons: At first sight, it may appear to be complicated and very confusing to new users, but it doesn't take much to get used to the organisation of windows and controls
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Blender 2.45
"Great program, way too complicated"
Pros: I played around with it for a few days and barely figured out how to use it. I had to keep going back to the tutorials. What I was able to accomplish was great.
Cons: After a few days I noticed my media players were not working right. Turns out Blender is too big and was using too much resources. That and its too busy, hard to comprehend.
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Version: Blender 2.45
"For being free- absolutely amazing"
Pros: For being free software, its pretty powerful and definitely something worth looking into if you are into this.
Cons: Pretty complicated,makes my pc run slow, but then again I have pretty low specs.
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Version: Blender 2.45
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