Blender

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Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, animating, rendering, video editing and compositing.

An open-source 3D computer graphics software. Many open-source projects, such as the open movie projects, have been carried out with it.

Category

• Blender:KeyboardShortcut
• Blender:ObjectModifiers: description of Properties window > Object Modifiers.
• Blender:Mirror: how to use Blender's Mirror feature.
• Blender:Tutorials
• Blender:UVMapping
• Blender:Material
• Blender:Composition
• Blender GIS
• DogWalk - a free, open-source casual interactive story game (an open project game officially released by Blender Studio)

Blender User Interface

• Blender User Interface website

Blender’s user interface improved dramatically with 2.5. See the User Interface section of the Release Notes for a summary of the changes, especially the Updated GUI section. It is now clean, clear, flexible, well organized, and easy to navigate. Color is used minimally, only where necessary.

Libraries

• Blendish (C/C++)

3D Viewport Gizmo

This is the 3D viewport navigator (3D Viewport Gizmo).

Located in the upper right of Blender, it is a tool that visually shows the orientation of the current viewport and lets you adjust the camera view by clicking or dragging.

See gizmo.

3D modelling software Projects

• 3D modelling software
• Blender
• Maya
• Autodesk 3ds Max
• SketchUp
• MoonRay (DreamWorks)
• D5 Render
• Rhino

Favorite site

• Blender web site
• Wikipedia (en) description of Blender
• Blender 2.5 Lighting and Rendering (ISBN: 9781847199881) ¹
• Blender Cookie
• Blender Guru
• Blender Cookie (Introduction Tutorials)
• Blender – introduction to an open-source 3D graphics tool
• Blender 2.4 Wiki Korean manual
• Blender TUTORIALS
• Blender YouTube TUTORIALS
• [Recommended] Blender modeling basics 2: Modeling a teapot
• Blender 2.5 keyboard shortcuts ²
• A taste of rigging with Blender ³
• Basics course: Transform tools (Transform)
• Making a cup in Blender 2.6 5 - Bump, Spec, Mirror
• Roy Simmons's Blender Tutorial
• Blender basics - 8. Railroad tracks
• Rigging a ball with legs - 4. mirror
• A little train and Blender basics - 1. Modeling
• Tutorial: Create a Wicked Drum of Smoke in Blender
• Introduction to Blender ⁴
• [Recommended] The mystery of the blend The blender file-format explained ⁵
• blender 2.53 beta shortcut keys (2010.08.26) ⁶
• YouTube - Blender 2.82 : Jiggle Physics (In 30 Seconds!!!)
• A technique only AI character creators know (Gemini+blender) #characterdesign #game - YouTube
• Be sure to use Claude when you do Blender! If you have lots of money. - YouTube

References