Evaluation Software - Software

Blender 2.43

Image of the product:

Name of producer:

Stichting Blender Foundation

Type of product:

3D graphics, authoring

Website of producer:

www.blender.org/

License:

Freeware

Main aim of the software:

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

Utility:

the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback

What does the software allow you to do?:

Interface, Rigging, Animation, UV Unwrapping, Physics and Particles, Realtime 3D/Game Creation, Modeling, Rendering, Shading, Imaging and Compositing

What formats does the software uses or import and export?:

BLEND
2D
TGA, JPG, PNG, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, Iris, SGI Movie, IFF, AVI and Quicktime GIF, TIFF, PSD, MOV (Windows and Mac OS X)
3D
3D Studio, AC3D, COLLADA, DEC Object File Format, DirectX, Lightwave, MD2, Motion Capture, Nendo, OpenFlight, PLY, Pro Engineer, Radiosity, Raw Triangle, Softimage, STL, TrueSpace, VideoScape, VRML, VRML97, Wavefront, X3D Extensible 3D, xfig export

Product Download Link:

http://www.blender.org/release/Blender2.43/blender-2.43-windows.exe

Avalaible Tutorial Support:

http://www.blender.org/tutorials-help/
http://www.blender.org/community/user-community/

Evaluator:

Name of Evaluator:

University of Patras

Country:

Greece

Date of Evaluation:

3/6/2007

Blackboard:

IES Doctor Lluis Simarro Lacabra IES Doctor Lluis Simarro Lacabra

This software is very complex, and I feel that a user must keep using it frequently if he wants to be productive. It is not like riding bike (once you learn, you never forget), you must keep trained. And I also feel that in any project it is used, there must be other members and collaborators, 3D modelling is used in games, so as a teacher I do not feel like going through it totally. (Miguel A. SG - Xativa workshop 3)

IES Doctor Lluis Simarro Lacabra IES Doctor Lluis Simarro Lacabra

I´m trying to get into this program and I am considering give in. It needs lots of time and perseverance to learn. Each day I can do a new thing but I forget five old things. It take me some time to review and recall how this or that was done. It is the most hard programm I have ever. Ricard Vila. Xátiva 1