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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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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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Inspiring
by dolittle
Many years ago I discovered a little ray-tracing tool called POV-Ray. After months of messing around I made a somewhat surrealistic still life from a c language scripting interface. It rendered in less than four days :)
About two years ago I discovered Blender and after a few fits and starts with it's very cool but not much like Windows interface I'm quite simply in love. If I can complain, it is only to say that the coders add and
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