It is a free and open source 3D animation suite and supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases.
Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process.
Photorealistic Rendering
The built-in Cycles rendering engine offers:
- GPU & CPU rendering
- Realtime viewport preview
- HDR lighting support
Fast UV Unwrapping
Blender allows for:
- Fast Cube, Cylinder, Sphere
and Camera projections
- Conformal and Angle Based
unwrapping (with edge seams and vertex pinning)
- Painting directly onto the
mesh
- Multiple UV layers
- UV layout image exporting
Video Editing
The Video Editor allows you to perform basic actions like video cuts and splicing, as well as more complex tasks like video masking.
The Video Editor includes:
- Live preview, luma waveform,
chroma vectorscope and histogram displays
- Audio mixing, syncing,
scrubbing and waveform visualization
- Up to 32 slots for adding
video, images, audio, scenes, masks and effects
- Speed control, adjustment
layers, transitions, keyframes, filters and more.
Flexible Interface
Blender’s interface also offers:
- Consistency across all
platforms
- No disruptive pop-up windows
- Crisp text (support for
retina on OSX)
Download link :http://www.blender.org/download/
Platforms : Linux, Windows, Macintosh
File Size : 57MB (Windows 64 bit)