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Blender is a 3D animation and compositing suite with tools for modeling (advanced subdivision modeling, multiresolution sculpting), uv unwrapping, texturing (procedural node, 2D and 3D painting), animation, rendering, particles and simulation (including fluid dynamics, hard body physics, cloth and hair), post-production with node based compositing and non linear editing, integrated game engine (with graphical programming, vehicle and rag doll constraints) and python scripting including an import and export suite.
Blender runs on all major operating systems including Windows XP/Vista, OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris and Irix. It has sculpting similar to ZBrush©, is a full animation suite similar to Maya© or 3DS Max© ; has compositing comparable to Nuke, and full video editing.
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Ohloh Analysis Summary
- Mostly written in C
- Mature, well-established codebase
- Very large, active development team
- Apache License 2.0 may conflict with GPL
- Artistic License may conflict with GPL
Updated 01 Jul 2009 23:49 UTC
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over 2 years
ago
Active and fast-growing
Blender 3D as a project starts to pick up the pace in an increasing way. It seems that more developers are finding the project and getting used to the codebase. The Google Summer of Code projects certainly have been great, and will be in the future.
The developers are active on IRC and the mailinglists, and often help out those who need guidance through the code or with the build process.
The metrics for the project are very nice, and show great activity, increasingly so.
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over 2 years
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Powerful suite for 3D content creation
by LetterRip
Blender is an amazing free 3D animation studio that has great capabilities for all sorts of 3D content creation. The new sculpt and retopology tools make it extremely easy to learn and use for modeling even for fairly novice users, while the advanced tools such as its powerful weighting and rigging capabilities; simulation tools and particle hair make it powerful enough for high end users.
There are really no tools that compare to it
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- http://www.blender.org/
- Licensed under
- GNU General Public License 2.0
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physics game_engine gaming graphics opengl windows render_engine digital_content_creation visualization special_effects houdini lighting 3dengine render_pipeline cross-platform 3d_rendering engine gamedev shader effects fluid compositor sss verse blender python zbrush cinema_4d after_effects particles maya 3ds_max nuke blender3d ambient_occlusion render glsl ray_tracing script dcc renderer 3d computer_aided_design cad painting sculpting compositing non_linear_editor nle film_editing rendering texturing modeling animation entertainment cloth
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| Codebase | 4,431,854 |
| Effort (est.) | 1339 Person Years |
| Avg. Salary | $ year |
| $ 73,650,852 | |
