What is Blender 3D?
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Blender 3D: the free open source 3D content creation suite
So What is Blender?
(taken from the official blender site)
Blender is an integrated application that enables the creation of a broad range of 2D and 3D content. Blender provides a broad spectrum of modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and video post-processing functionality in one package. Through it's open architecture, Blender provides cross-platform interoperability, extensibility, an incredibly small footprint, and a tightly
integrated workflow. Blender is one of the most popular Open Source 3D graphics application in the world.
Aimed world-wide at media professionals and artists, Blender can be used to create 3D visualizations, stills as well as broadcast and cinema quality videos, while the incorporation of a real-time 3D engine allows for the creation of 3D interactive content for stand-alone playback.
Originally developed by the company 'Not a Number' (NaN), Blender now is continued as 'Free Software', with the source code available under the GNU GPL license. It now continues development by the Blender Foundation in the Netherlands.
"Mandy" from Yo, Frankie! (Project Apricot)
Key Features of Blender
Blender is a fully integrated 3d creation program, offering a robust set of basic and advanced tools for the creation and production of 3D content.Including
Modeling
UV-mapping
Texturing
Rigging
Weighting
Animation
Particle and other simulation
Scripting
Rendering
Compositing and Post-Production
Game Creation
Blender offers complete cross platform compatibility, with OpenGL uniform GUI on all platforms, ready to use for all versions of Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP), Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, Irix, Sun and numerous other operating systems;
High quality 3D architecture enabling fast and efficient creation work-flow
Free support channels via www.blender3d.org allow you to communicate directly with Blender's coders.
More than 200,000 downloads of each release (users) worldwide has created a worldwide community of fellow users, allowing for fantastic collaboration on projects and the ability to get answers quickly.
User community support by forums for questions, answers, and critique at www.BlenderArtists.org and news services at www.BlenderNation.com;
With Blender's small executable size, great for easy distribution as well as complete portability, you can easily load blender onto an USB drive and carry your projects with you.
Full Feature List
Feature Demo Videos
from "Big Buck Bunny"
BlenderNation
Fresh Blender News, Every Day
Keep up to date on all the latest Blender news, projects and status of features and official releases.
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"Telephone" from "Elephants Dream" (Project Orange)
Where Blenderheads Gather
- Blender Foundation
- This is the official Blender site as well as the developer site ran by the Blender Foundation. You can download the latest version of Blender here, follow the progress of development and show your support for Blender by purchasing items from the e-shop.
- Blenderartists
- One of the largest artist community sites for blender help and social interaction.
Seeing is Believing!
So just what can be done in Blender?
I have always followed the "seeing is believing" school of thought. Just look at what is possible in Blender.Blender Art Gallery
The gallery at the official blender site is filled with images created by talented members of the blender community.
Movies and Short Animations
A small sampling of the movies and short animations that have been created with blender. Many of them are nominees/and or winners of the coveted Suzanne Award.
Current Roadmap
...always something cooking in Blender
1. Redesign of internal window manager and event/tool/data handling system.
2. Porting over old code to clean-up and match the new design.
3. Bringing tools and editors back using new event system and 'operators'.
4. Redesign and implement UI context, workflow and visual representation.
5. Design and implement the new Python API.
The first two phases are nearly complete, the third phase is about 70% done. The March-June period will be mostly devoted to steps 4 and 5.
summary of highlights for the upcoming 2.5
Blender Books on Amazon
Blender Books
Environment test from "Big Buck Bunny' (Project Peach)
Explore more Blender Related Lenses
Here is a list of my Blender related lenses, all nicely organized and contained in one spot.You can find lenses on the following Blender topics:
Blender Resources
Blender Artist Spotlight
Misc Blender Related Lenses
Blender How-to's and Tutorial Lenses
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My Blender 3d Lenses
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It's probably a little soon to create a lens list. But I have a minor malfunction when it comes to how things are organized. I like nice, neat groupings of things. Something that has already caused me to re-vamp several of my lenses and even split on...
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