Blender ~ NomanFun

Monday 28 July 2014

Blender

Blender is an extremely powerful, cross-platform 3D graphic tool that has over the last 15+ years managed to slowly expand its core capabilities and become one of the most feature-full 3D computer graphics software editing tools on the market. It comes with multitude of powerful features for editing, rendering, 3d modeling, animation, and playback, all packaged in incredibly well-designed interface that rivals the organizational skills of highly-professional tools such as Maya or 3D Max. To fight those pro software packages, Blender managed to build its own open-source assortment of incredible tools that cover absolutely all aspects of 3D modeling, texturing, skinning, rigging, simulation of particles, smoke, soft body objects, camera tracking, compositing, video editing, and even a fully integrated video game engine.

All those tools and services are packaged into interface that can be fully modified to fit the needs of users, with smart contextual menus being present everywhere ant two editing modes – Object Mode and Edit mode. Hotkey support is of course very well done, and after a very short time even novices can get excellent overview of everything that Blender has to offer. Today, Blender manages to attract some of the best artists on the market and countless novices, with all of them being interested to take full advantage from this tremendously popular 3D modeling software that is easily rivaling compatibilities of its older (and much more expensive) competitors.

Discover the wide toolset available in Blender, defining a complete pipeline (from modeling to sequence editing) controlled by a flexible and consistent user interface.

Blender Main Features:

Photorealistic Rendering
Blender now features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering.

Fast Modelling
Blender’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.

Realistic Materials
With Blender’s new rendering engine the possibilities for materials are endless.

Fast Rigging
Transforming a model into a poseable character has never been easier!

Animation toolset
Whether it’s simple keyframing or complex walk-cycles, Blender allows artists to turn their still characters into impressive animations.

Sculpting
Experience the joy of sculpting organic subjects using the built-in sculpting feature set of Blender.

Fast UV Unwrapping
Easily unwrap your mesh right inside Blender, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto the model.

Full Compositor
Blender comes with a fully fledged compositor built right in. That means no more exporting to third party programs, you can do it all without leaving the program.

Amazing Simulations
Whether you need a crumbling building, rain, fire, smoke, fluid, cloth or full on destruction, Blender delivers great looking results.

Game Creation
Included in Blender is a complete game engine, allowing you to create a fully featured 3d game right inside Blender.

Camera and Object tracking
Blender now includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3d scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.

Library of Extensions
With a large community of enthusiasts and developers, Blender comes loaded with a vast array of extensions that you can turn on or off easily.

Flexible Interface
Novice and advanced users will love the ability to customize their layout completely. From simply splitting their viewport, to fully customizing it with python scripting, blender works for you.

File Formats
Blender comes packed with import/export support for many different programs. Image: JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TARGA, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, TIFF. Video: AVI, MPEG and Quicktime (on OSX). 3D: 3D Studio (3DS), COLLADA (DAE), Filmbox (FBX), Autodesk (DXF), Wavefront (OBJ), DirectX (x), Lightwave (LWO), Motion Capture (BVH), SVG, Stanford PLY, STL, VRML, VRML97, X3D.

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