What Is Blender?
Blender is open-source software that provides one of the most complete 3D-graphics creation suites. It includes tools for modeling, texturing, shading, animation, compositing, rendering, video editing, and more. Since the development of version 2.50, which introduced a completely new user interface (UI), Blender’s user base has grown significantly. It has reached animation studios and is now being used in top movie productions (Life of Pi and Red Riding Hood, for example, shown at the Blender Conference 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
Its principal target audience is professional, freelance 3D artists and small studios, and Blender works very well for their needs. It still isn’t widely used by big studios for several reasons. ...
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