Blender

Features:

Photorealistic Rendering
Blender now features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering. The built-in Cycles rendering engine offers:

• GPU & CPU rendering
  Realtime viewport preview
  HDR lighting support
  Permissive License for linking with external software

Fast Modeling
Blender’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze. Blender’s modeling tools include:

• Keyboard shortcuts for a fast workflow
  N-Gon support
  Edge slide, collapse and dissolve
  Grid and Bridge fill
  Python scripting for custom tools and add-ons

Realistic Materials
With Blender’s new rendering engine the possibilities for materials are endless. Key features are:

• Complete Node Support for full customization
  Physically accurate shaders like glass, translucency and SSS
  Open Shading Language (OSL) support for coding unique shaders

Fast Rigging
Transforming a model into a posable character has never been easier! Blender offers an impressive set of rigging tools including:

• Envelope, skeleton and automatic skinning
  Easy weight painting
  Mirror functionality
  Bone layers and colored groups for organization
  B-spline interpolated bones

Animation toolset
Whether it’s simple keyframing or complex walk-cycles, Blender allows artists to turn their still characters into impressive animations. Blender’s animation feature set offers:

• Automated walk-cycles along paths
  Character animation pose editor
  Non Linear Animation (NLA) for independent movements
  IK forward/inverse kinematics for fast poses
  Sound synchronization

Sculpting
Experience the joy of sculpting organic subjects using the built-in sculpting feature set of Blender. Sculpting in Blender includes:

20 different brush types
Multi-res sculpting support
Dynamic Topology sculpting
Mirrored sculpting

Fast UV Unwrapping
Easily unwrap your mesh right inside Blender, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto the model. Blender allows for:

• Fast Cube, Cylinder, Sphere and Camera projections
  Conformal and Angle Based unwrapping (with edge seams and vertex pinning)
  Painting directly onto the mesh
  Multiple UV layers
  UV layout image exporting

Full Compositor
Blender comes with a fully fledged compositor built right in. That means no more exporting to third party programs, you can do it all without leaving the program. The compositor comes with:

• Impressive library of nodes for creating camera fx, color grading, vignettes and much more
  Render-layer support
  Full compositing with images and video files
  Ability to render to multiLayer OpenEXR files
  Multi-threaded

Amazing Simulations

Whether you need a crumbling building, rain, fire, smoke, fluid, cloth or full on destruction, Blender delivers great looking results. Blender’s simulation tools include

• Fluid – Realistic water and fluid simulations.
  Smoke – Billowing smoke with flames and scene interaction.
  Hair – Beautiful wafts of hair that blows in the wind and interacts with collisions.
  Cloth – Amazingly realistic cloth simulations for clothing and environments
  Rigid Body Physics – Makes any object destructable and collidable
  Particles – For creating things like rain, sparks and shrapnel