[Graphics] Is Blender Insufficiently Appreciated?

This is a bit of a plug for Blender, a fantastic Open Source project that is perhaps the most under-appreciated project on the net. What is Blender? Well, it is just "the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X."

I guess nobody likes great free 3D image building and animation software anymore!

You will find more information at blender3d.org and you should be aware of the Blender Foundation, which is now responsible for this impossibly cool GNU GPL software. You can contribute to this project either with code or financially (via the Blender Fund).

3 Comments

  • Blender is pretty nice, but its rendering quality leaves something to be desired. POVRay produces vastly superior images, but, unfortunately, it doesn't have the nice GUI to go along with it...

  • Povray technically has a GUI, but it it is more like an IDE with syntax highlighting than a modeller. There are a few third party editors (like Moray and PovLab), but they are pretty simple.



    I definately agree that Blender's animation support and modelling tools are far superior, it is just sucky that it's rendering quality isn't nearly as good.

  • what about blender with yafray?

    Isn't it good enough producing images?

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