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You can get an idea of Blender’s capabilities by listing some of the projects that have used it. 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!’ Blender comes from the not-for-profit Blender Foundation. 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. It includes related functionality: a game engine, fonts, motion capture and many, many more. A good place to start is to become familiar with the interface which has been reworked in the recent 2.61 version.
Support comes in the way of texts, models and tutorials from the official website. A CMS gathers background information and lists many websites and groups maintained by Blender followers, (Blender Art Magazine, Blender Nation, and so on). If that is not enough a shelf of specialist commercial books offers guidance through the Blender product. As for the software, by its nature it is resource hungry, but bug-free.
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Learned and professional users consider Blender to be a match or more for other pay-for packages. Pros: Undo and Redo support at all levels; immensely capable toolset; ardent community; fully configurable user interface. Cons: Size and complexity.
Conclusions: This is a conceptual product whose primary audience is the professional designer. Its focus is 3D animation, but it extends beyond. It demands a commitment to learning it.
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.
. SSS now works with panorama render. Removed artifacts with negative lights when using SSS. Disabled SSS for preview rendering, so it didn't slow down other preview render at all. Fixed error in 'Transform Constraint' with planar constraints when the plane was perpendicular to the viewport. Fixed the vector blur error in 'Ztransp' that produce black lines (on edges) appeared, which didn't get blurred away. Fixed an error in the Particle System that cause bad results for command line renders, especially when rendering first frame of animation.
Fixed Verse crashing in 64 bits Linux. Math node now has reflective behavior. Multires meshes with UV's and vertex colors would crash in many cases. Importing 3DS files with lamps failed. DXF Importer updated, includes stable support for 3d objects and blocks hierarchy. FBX Exporter updated, includes fixes for better compatibility with other applications and support for exporting animation with armature deformed meshes and objects. Collada support updated for better armature support.
Bundled python modules were not included in 2.44 by accident, making some scripts fail in 2.44 that worked in 2.43 (Windows Only, when Python was not installed). Fixed bug in the shadow calculation that cause errors where specularity would ignore shadows. Changes to the insert keyframes method for determining when to replace existing keyframes with new ones.
Now, it shouldn't create so many keyframes stacked on top of each other. Blender would crash if boolean operations were done on objects wich resulted in an empty mesh.
This was due to accessing invalid memory. Remove the options 'make local' in the Outliner. It didnt work properly and produced errors in the linked data. Edgesplit crashes are fixed, the problem was that 'bridge' vertices (which connect two or more faces that don't share edges) were not being included in the maximum final vertex count calculation (used for memory allocation, hence the crashes). Fixed Multires Editmode memory leak. Typo in Multires Editmode integration meant that far too much memory was getting allocated for a pointer array (more than 10 times as much).