How to Use Blender the Best Free 3D Animation Software

Blender is free and open source software. Free to use for any purpose, forever.

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

Tears of Steel (2012)



Project Mango was the Blender Foundation’s fourth movie. Production took place from March 2012 to October 2012 in the Blender Institute’s studio in Amsterdam. The targets were VFX compositing (green screens) and realistic renders with Cycles.



Seattle-based director Ian Hubert was invited to work in Amsterdam with an artist/developer crew on a sci-fi short film set in Amsterdam. Thanks to crowdfunding and support from the Netherlands Film Fund, a week of filming with a professional camera/light/sound crew was possible. The original footage was shot in a well-equipped green screen studio and on location in Amsterdam.



The Blender Institute team then worked four months on realizing the VFX for the film. Improvements were made to Blender’s motion tracker, camera solver, masking, Cycles, and color grading.



Additional funding by cinegrid.nl made it possible to re-render and deliver the whole film in 4k resolution. This version was released in April 2013.

Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps... and the rabbit ain't no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.

Blender is the Best Free Video Editing with 3D Animation on Mac

Blender 2.75a is the latest stable release from the Blender Foundation.
To download it, please select your platform and location. Blender is Free & Open Source Software

Blender 2.75a was released on July 8, 2015. Blender is becoming more and more a program that can do everything, whether it is 3D or 2D. On the downside of that is the ever lengthening learning curve, because the more that is added, the more complex it becomes. That said, there is no other application I have seen that can do as much as Blender. But with new builds being released on average every two months, it is a program no-one will ever fully learn, at least until it become perfect. Not likely to ever be perfect though.Don't let what I say scare you though. If you are looking for an application that does nearly everything you can't go wrong with Blender. Just keep in mind that some controls are switched, and the work space Y and Z axes are switched too.

How do I install Blender?

To install Blender, download the appropriate package for your platform. The Windows version comes with an optional self-extracting installer, for other operating systems you can simply unpack the compressed file to the location of your choice.

I am a user of several 3D art and modeling applications; all of which have the axes arranged with X as side to side, Y as up to down, and Z as fore to rear, Blender is the only one with the X and Y axes switched. And yes it is also the only one with the left and right mouse button functions switched. But I leave everything as is in the program because I don't want to keep having to set Blender up for my preferences every time I upgrade. I like using keyboard shortcuts, and if I set the new build to work like my other applications, I have to also reset my keyboard shortcuts. I just don't have time to do that. So I live with Blender as is, and try to keep in mind that I am working in Blender when doing so.

Provided the Blender binary is in the original extracted directory, Blender will run straight out of the box. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.

It's a free 3D graphics application and considered as one of the best free video editor for Mac. It can be used for modeling, rigging, texturing, UV unwrapping, skinning, animating, rendering, water and smoke simulations, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, animated film, video games, or other visual effects.

Blender Foundation and the blender.org developer community are proud to present the official Blender 2.75a release. The main highlights of this release are:
Blender now supports a fully integrated Multi-View and Stereo 3D pipeline
Cycles has much awaited initial support for AMD GPUs, and a new Light Portals feature.
UI now allows font previews in the file browser.
High quality options for viewport depth of field were added
Modeling has a new Corrective Smooth modifier.
The Decimate modifier was improved significantly.
3D viewport painting now supports symmetry and the distribution of Dynamic Topology was improved
Video Sequence Editor: Placeholders can now replace missing frames of image sequences
Game Engine now allows smoother LOD transitions, and supports mist attributes animation
And: 100s of bug fixes and smaller feature improvements.Released: July 1, 2015. Released update 2.75a: July 8, 2015. Essential for GE users and for people using render passes! Full list of fixes.

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