Blender

About Blender
Blender is an on-premise game development platform, which helps small to large businesses in technology, motion pictures, graphic designing, online media, computer games, and other sectors manage 3D printing, develop animations, create visual effects, and more. The software provides various functionality including python scripting, sculpting tools, data export, sound synchronization, and custom colors.
Blender offers an animation and rigging module, which enables artists to develop character animations through pose editor, non-linear animation (NLA), inverse kinematics, automatic skinning, weight painting, and motion paths. It provides a sculpting module that allows designers to sculpt organic models, remove details from mesh, and mask specific parts of the animation.
The platform helps developers customize interface layouts, combine 3D and 2D models, track object footage, unwrap animations, personalize image properties, and edit design elements. Using Blender’s rendering module users can render images via bump mapping, linear schemes, motion blur, and shading.
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- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Blender best 3D Free Software
Reviewed on 21/06/2024
Blender is a multipurpose 3d software easy to setup and model.
Able to create any object according...
Blender is a multipurpose 3d software easy to setup and model.
Able to create any object according to the concept in mind and client specification.
Pros
Free to use
Ease of setup
Programmable with Python
Large community, support, tutorials and plugins
Cons
The learning curve is steep.
Animation consumes lots of time.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Blender is a lifesaver!
Reviewed on 06/03/2024
Pros
All the resources were top-notch, everything was easy to use, and everything was all in one! Lifesaver! Prevented me from wasting my time on finding secure, free, resources for 5 different actions!
Cons
The Apple app uses almost 25% of my charge if used for 1.5 hours, but after an update, or reboot, it works perfectly!
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Worst 3d program
Reviewed on 30/04/2021
I had to use as a trainee in architectural office where all bigger 3d projects were done in...
I had to use as a trainee in architectural office where all bigger 3d projects were done in blender. Why on earth anyone would use it because there was a cinema 4d licence in the house?
Pros
Cycles is quite good and you can get same quality as in commercial packages.
Cons
It has no windows user aproach to its use and it is awkward to pick up and start making any project very fast
Option are cluttered all over the place
There is no left mouse action but it is something else.
- Industry: Animation
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Blender for 3D Modeling: Robustness and Variety of Features (for Free)
Reviewed on 06/11/2024
I used Blender for a few personal projects while I was learning more about 3D modeling. I didn’t...
I used Blender for a few personal projects while I was learning more about 3D modeling. I didn’t use it for too long since I eventually moved away from this area, even though I really enjoyed it. Anyway, regarding the tool, I loved it—no crashes during any of my projects, and some of them were quite heavy. It truly offers an endless array of options, from geometric shapes to different types of shadow rendering, light positioning, camera angles, and more. I highly recommend it.
Pros
I liked that Blender offers many options for modeling, especially for hard surface modeling. I haven't used it as much for character modeling, but it's an incredible tool for creating environments, objects, armor, and so on.
Additionally, I found it to be a software with excellent rendering quality and lighter than others I've used before.
Cons
Eu diria que a curva de aprendizado no software não é tão simples, pois tem muitas variáveis no uso, porém depois que você aprende, já fica tudo automático.
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Creative Alliance Review
Reviewed on 12/07/2023
Well it has been almost 4 years of Blender use and this software has evolved so much from when we...
Well it has been almost 4 years of Blender use and this software has evolved so much from when we started and we have been completely satisfied as a company and has enabled us to make many different quality 3D models according to our customers' preferences.
Pros
3D modeling could not be done without Blender. When we started as a start-up, Blender, being a free software helped us to such an extent that we cannot describe. We have produced so many image and video renders for our clients using the cycles renderer that helped us grow as a company because of good words from our clients. Blender is truly where everyone starts their 3D journey and we encourage students who want to learn 3D modeling and animation to look no further than Blender.
Cons
The only con about Blender is, might be a personal opinion, the viewport navigation. It would me much more easier with the implementation of viewport navigation like that of Unreal Engine. That would make Blender the complete software in my opinion.
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Blender is free with all the features that Cinema 4D provides which costs tons of money not many could afford.Blender FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Blender.Q. What type of pricing plans does Blender offer?
Blender offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
Blender is a free and open-source software.
Q. Who are the typical users of Blender?
Blender has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Blender support?
Blender supports the following languages:
French, Italian
Q. Does Blender support mobile devices?
Blender supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Blender integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Blender has
Q. What level of support does Blender offer?
Blender offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Chat
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