On January 1, 1998, Blender was released publicly online as SGI freeware. Some design choices and experiences for Blender were carried over from an earlier software application, called Traces, that Roosendaal developed for NeoGeo on the Commodore Amiga platform during the 1987–1991 period. The name Blender was inspired by a song by the Swiss electronic band Yello, from the album Baby, which NeoGeo used in its showreel. Version 1.00 was released in January 1995, with the primary author being company co-owner and software developer Ton Roosendaal. It may be free to download and use, but unless you prepare for the road ahead you may find yourself unable to get the most out of it and there is a great deal to get from this product.The Dutch animation studio NeoGeo (not related to the Neo Geo family of video game hardware) started to develop Blender as an in-house application, and based on the timestamps for the first source files, Januis considered to be Blender's birthday. Its focus is 3D animation, but it extends beyond. Pros: Undo and Redo support at all levels immensely capable toolset ardent community fully configurable user interface.Ĭonclusions: This is a conceptual product whose primary audience is the professional designer. Learned and professional users consider Blender to be a match or more for other pay-for packages. If that is not enough a shelf of specialist commercial books offers guidance through the Blender product.Īs for the software, by its nature it is resource hungry, but bug-free. A CMS gathers background information and lists many websites and groups maintained by Blender followers, (Blender Art Magazine, Blender Nation, and so on). Support comes in the way of texts, models and tutorials from the official website. It includes related functionality: a game engine, fonts, motion capture and many, many more.Ī good place to start is to become familiar with the interface which has been reworked in the recent 2.61 version. It is open-source, free to download and use but requires a considerable investment of time and effort from the serious user and rewards her with the flexible software and skills to model in 2 and 3D, animate, render and process images and videos to an award-winning professional standard. For example, the makers of ‘Spiderman 2’ used Blender for 3D and character animation it was used for the special effects in the film ‘Vendredi ou un autre Jour’, movies ‘Elephants Dream’, ‘Big Buck Bunny’, ‘Sintel’ and ‘Plumiferos’ a 3D CG feature film were made in Blender as was the 3D game ‘Yo Frankie!’īlender comes from the not-for-profit Blender Foundation. You can get an idea of Blender’s capabilities by listing some of the projects that have used it.
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