Blender

Professional 3D modeling and animation for free.

If you want to start experimenting in the world of 3D modelling and graphic creation, with a program that offers professional results without having to pay the expensive licenses of applications like 3DS Max, there is an open source alternative that will surprise you. We are speaking about Blender.

  Blender is a powerful application for 3D modelling, renderizing and animation, that will surprise most users due to the professional results that it offers given its scarce use of disk space and resources. This software is a complete solution that offers possibilities to model, UV mapping, texturing, animation, simulation particles, scripting, renderizing, composition and post-production, among others.

  A distintive aspect of Blender is its interface, completely configurable and very flexible. Other interesting features are:
- Quick skeleton creation.
- Great variety of kinds of 3D objects with polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts (TrueType, PostScript, OpenType), ...
- Mesh modelling based on vertex, edge or face selection.
- Inverse cinematics.
- Transformation of interactive UV maps and the use of multiple faces.
- Possibility to use the Python scrypt to personalize any task.

  This program is compatible with a wide array of formats:
- 2D: TGA, JPG, PNG, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, Iris, SGI Movie, TIFF, PSD, ...
- 3D: 3D Studio, AC3D, FBX Export, DXF, Wavefront OBJ, DEC Object File Format, DirectX, Lightwave, MD2, Motion Capture, PLY, Pro Engineer, Radiosity, Raw Triangle, Softimage, STL, TrueSpace, VideoScape, VRML, VRML97, ...

  Requirements: This download requires that you have Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package installed.