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Blender Overview

What is Blender?

Blender is an open source 3D creation suite that supports the 3D pipeline, modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, and motion tracking, video editing, and game creation.

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Blender is an open source 3D creation suite that supports the 3D pipeline, modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, and motion tracking, video editing, and game creation.


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The Blender Foundation is an independent public benefit organization. Its spin-off corporation Blender Institute hosts the foundation’s offices and currently employs 50 people who work on the Blender software and creative projects to validate and test Blender in production environments.


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Ayan B.
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What do you like best about Blender?

Blender provides life like 3-D simulations and if you have the skills you can even achieve photo realistic graphics with it. The water physics are one of the best in blender. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

Actually it is pretty hard to get going for beginners. One needs to do a kind of thorough course before getting started. I understand that this application is meant for professionals but the UI can be a bit user friendly too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blender helps in 3-D modelling and 3-D animation. The end to end pipeline it supports for 3-D workflow i.e. modelling, composition, animation, rendering, etc. is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blender?

You can turn litterally everything you have in your mind into a 3D Design. It is becoming more and more an industry standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

The learning curve is very steep due to the complexity and the number of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use blender for all non-parametric CAD 3D modelling projects and for all rendering requirements.

Our usage does not justify paying for a high end 3D modeling software. Blender meets our needs and has progressed significantly in the last few years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yash A.
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What do you like best about Blender?

In my opinion the best thing about Blender is It's free and open source. This means that anyone can download and use blender without paying a single penny, regardless of their budget or technical skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

Only the Interface.

Blender has a unique interface that is not based on the standard conventions of other 3D software, this can make it difficult for new users to learn, especially if they are coming from some other 3D software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving one of the major problem every individual faces, that is Money. its saving alot of money by providing such amazing tools for absolutely free,

Blender is free to download and use, which makes it accessible to people who cannot afford to purchase expensive 3D software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avni B.
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What do you like best about Blender?

It is free to use and has wide range of features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

User interface is overwhelming and little confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

This open source software helps freelance artists to grow and learn and the continuous updates introducing new features every time makes it very up to date to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blender?

Blender is a powerful and versatile 3D creation for professional and beginner creators. Blender is free and open-source so you can get on with ease. Its powerful modelling tool allows you to create 3D models from simple primitives to complex curves and surfaces. It also has an intricate rigging and animation system, allowing you to bring characters to life realistically. Plus, with a physics engine included, you can simulate realistic effects such as cloth and fluid dynamics. Beyond that, you can use the compositor to stitch multiple images together to create stunning visual effects or take advantage of the motion tracking system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

The user interface can be confusing and unintuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bring your ideas and designs to life with amazing animations! With Blender, I can create realistic animations of our product, Blender is the best tool for 3D creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blender?

- Blender is accessible to anyone as it is free and open-source software.

- It is a very powerful all-in-one creative tool for many professionals as it provides a comprehensive set of 3D tools and features for 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, etc.

- Blender has a very big active community making it easier for beginners to find tutorials and resources.

- Blender has cross-platform compatibility.

- According to your preferences and workflow you can adjust the interface and tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

- Due to its vast array of tools Blender can be overwhelming for some beginners.

- Blender's support is mostly through the community as it is open-source software.

- Sometimes Blender's interface can be a bit complicated and quite hard to navigate.

- Blender can handle complex projects but sometimes its performance slows down while working with extremely high-resolution projects.

- Sometimes it is challenging to work with collaborators as Blender is not always compatible with other software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

- It is a very good alternative to other 3D creative software which are not free of cost.

- One very important thing about Blender is you can access it from any operating system.

- The best thing about Blender is that it is a very versatile software with apps for animation, modeling, texturing, video editing, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alessio D.
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What do you like best about Blender?

Free, easy to use and lots of tutorials and videos online Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

Nothing in particular, maybe few modifier cam be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blender allows me to model 3D object in an easy but precise way! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harsh S.
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What do you like best about Blender?

It is a complete package for a beginner as well as an experienced player to start building, modelling the objects in 2D and 3D forms. Then you can showcase your work in Edit Mode, Solid Mode and even you work into paiting the texture and lot of things around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

When you want to model a character with brushes in free modeling then it becomes complex for beginner to use those tools, however it will take time to learn but there should be some way around to make it simple a bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've always been a good sketch artist since my childhood and use to draw the naturistic things like buildings, the interior and all. Now using the blender it becomes easy and add values to that. I have provided lot of 3D models on the interiors to Artstation account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maria C.
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What do you like best about Blender?

Blender requires little study to learn the basics. And if you try hard enough you can learn to use it really well because it's very intuitive. Plus there are tons of tutorials online. PLUS IT'S FREE! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

If you don't use it continuously over time, you easily forget the commands. Or at least that's what happened to me. Also, for more important and heavy work, you need a good computer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a free and easily available program and it works very well. For me, the ease with which I find free tutorials online is very important, because i can learn step by step what i need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blender?

As a Blender user, I can't help but brag about its pros, and believe me, there are many. First of all, Blender is free and open source, which means it's extremely accessible and easy for anyone who wants to get started without costing them money. One thing I like about Blender is its variety. It's not just an ordinary 3D program, you can do almost anything with it. Blender offers you everything from modeling and sculpting, texturing to animation and video editing.

Another fantastic feature of Blender is its procedural workflow. Image being able to create a 3D object, make changes and yet undo those changes without destroying your object's mesh. It makes a huge difference in maintaing a clean and efficent workflow.

And if you ever get stuck or need help, the Blender community is here and there are lots of resources available, including tutorials, FAQs and support groups. You will never feel alone on your Blender journey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blender?

As much as I love Blender, and it is fantastic program for learning and working on standalone projects, you should be aware that it is not consodered the industry standart, but it is improving all the time.

Sometimes it can be a bit buggy. It's always good to be prepared for occasional bug.

What I personally don't like are the collision simulations, they behave very unpredictably.

But, I don't have much to complain about Blender, it's a great tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blender solving and how is that benefiting you?

In Blender we create simple and complex scenes, whether it is static rendering or complete animations for our clients. Throught Blender we can model 3D objects which we then texture, if necessary we can do rigging. Finally we crate scenes and animate. Blender has relatively good post-processing which we also use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.