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Blender for Mac is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Blender is the first and only fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility - all in one tidy, easily and free downloadable package.
Advanced users employ the app’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in the app’s future releases. Blender for macOS is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. The tool has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: the app is your own 3D software for Mac. Features and Highlights Photorealistic Rendering The app now features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering. Fast Modelling the program’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze. Realistic Materials With the app’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 for Mac 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 the tool. Fast UV Unwrapping Easily unwrap your mesh right inside the tool, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto the model. Full Compositor The app 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, the software 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 the app. Camera and Object tracking The program 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, the tool 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, the app 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. Also Available: Download Blender for Windows ![]()
Last update22 Mar. 2016 | old versionsLicence FreeOS SupportWindows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8Ranking#7 in 3D Modeling & CAD
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You can get an idea of Blender’s capabilities by listing some of the projects that have used it. For example, the makers of ‘Spiderman 2’ used Blender for 3D and character animation; it was used for the special effects in the film ‘Vendredi ou un autre Jour’, movies ‘Elephants Dream’, ‘Big Buck Bunny’, ‘Sintel’ and ‘Plumiferos’ a 3D CG feature film were made in Blender; as was the 3D game ‘Yo Frankie!’
Blender comes from the not-for-profit Blender Foundation. It is open-source, free to download and use but requires a considerable investment of time and effort from the serious user and rewards her with the flexible software and skills to model in 2 and 3D, animate, render and process images and videos to an award-winning professional standard. It includes related functionality: a game engine, fonts, motion capture and many, many more. A good place to start is to become familiar with the interface which has been reworked in the recent 2.61 version. Support comes in the way of texts, models and tutorials from the official website. A CMS gathers background information and lists many websites and groups maintained by Blender followers, (Blender Art Magazine, Blender Nation, and so on). If that is not enough a shelf of specialist commercial books offers guidance through the Blender product. As for the software, by its nature it is resource hungry, but bug-free. Learned and professional users consider Blender to be a match or more for other pay-for packages. Pros: Undo and Redo support at all levels; immensely capable toolset; ardent community; fully configurable user interface. Cons: Size and complexity. Conclusions: This is a conceptual product whose primary audience is the professional designer. Its focus is 3D animation, but it extends beyond. It demands a commitment to learning it. It may be free to download and use, but unless you prepare for the road ahead you may find yourself unable to get the most out of it; and there is a great deal to get from this product.
Blender is a powerful development tool to create 3D images and animations, whose main advantage regarding other similar tools like 3D studio or Maya is that this is a completely free application. The program lets you model, render, texture, illuminate, animate and post-produce any kind of three-dimensional scenes.
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