Blender
Blender is a free and open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
3D Animation and Rendering Software
Developer: The Blender Foundation
License: GPL
Web: http://www.blender.org/
Features
- Revolutionary non-overlapping and non-blocking UI delivers unsurpassed workflow.
- A range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts.
- Very fast inbuilt raytracer
- Realtime 3D/Game Creation
For a more in depth list of details visit the blender.org :: Features page.
Applications
Blender is a full functional integrated 3D creation software suite. It lets users create high quality 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content. Over the last decade, Blender has evolved as an in-house tool for a leading European animation studio. Blender is powerful technology used for creating broadcast quality 3D content.
- Architectural/Industrial applications
- Web Design
- Branded Advertainment
- Character Animation
- e-commerce
- Product Modeling
- e-learning applications
- e-marketing
- Presentations
- Post-production/Visual Effects