Blender

Blender

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Blender	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite available in under the GNU General Public License. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline. Blender Cloud is a related service accessible via subscription, and is a training and content platform providing access to expertise from the Blender Institute for advancing one's use of Blender.	$11.50 per month

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Blender

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Blender
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	Blender
Considered Both Products	Blender Gloria Varghese Digital marketing trainer Chose Blender Blender is a free software which makes it accessible by all.It also provides various features which is in the paid software also . Incentivized Helpful? Yaco Lioi Cofundador Chose Blender We selected Blender for most of use cases because it's availability and ease of use. Having no commitment in terms of plans or pricing also gives us more freedom to try it out, and we ended up staying with Blender. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Blender Well, in fact, I haven't used any of that software, but there is one thing I know: Blender is free. That's huge for small business owners like me; it is the difference between having the tool and not having it. I have heard other people saying that the Autodesk offerings have … Incentivized Helpful? Arpad Szucs Brand Designer \| UI, UX & Visual Designer Chose Blender We used only Blender in a professional setting. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Blender It fulfills my expectation to make 3D animation and cartoons to show my concept of research results to the audiance ranging from low-level to excellent in the field. It saves a lot of time to explain and makes attraction to the audiance. It exceptionally helps my class room … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Blender Again, Blender wins over its competition in the number of users and its large community because it is free software. Whether you like it or not, that's a kickstart that makes a noticeable difference. But, indeed, its competition is usually much more powerful and professional, … Incentivized Helpful? Jitendra Choubisa AR VR Content Developer Chose Blender Blender is first of all free and open source software. It has very easy to use tools which can help one in navigating and modifying easily and efficiently. It is also very less in size, on my system it is of 355 MB. The rendering engine Cycle works simultaneously in the … Incentivized Helpful? ME Matt Eddy Creative Director Chose Blender We've only used the consumer (non-pro) version of SketchUp, which we love, but is very limited in features and output capabilities compared to Blender. While Blender's learning curve is MUCH steeper than SketchUp, it feels like truly complete, professional design software. Incentivized Helpful? Zeel Pandya SAP ABAP Consultant Chose Blender As already mention , a Wide range of features and complete set of tools without paying anything . Suitable with any operating system. Getting started with Blender is also easy. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Blender I have to start off but stating the obvious. Blender is full-featured and free. Yes, I repeat, "free." Adobe makes outstanding products but at a high initial cost. Blender does a similarly fantastic job, but for free. Adobe Substance is able to perform all the tasks I need to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Blender Ease of use and free, ZBrush has a very steep learning curve and Blender seems to be better at realistic image rendering. Plus free upgrades and amazing support made it a no-brainer. Lots of online tutorials and add-ons Blender comes out on top. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Blender Blender is a more user-friendly version of these programs; not only that, but the community behind blender is great; posting everything you need on youtube or offering courses has made it so much easier to learn new ways to make renders or assets, also there are plenty of free … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Blender Did not look at any others. This was recommended by an industry friend and has served our needs well. Helpful? Mahmoud obaid Graduate Mechanical Engineer Chose Blender Again, Blender has a great advantage compared to other software which is being “ open source “ & free which can let anybody uses it without any worries. Compared to Ansys, Blender is ok since it doesn’t have all the features that Ansys got which is fine since Ansys is quite an … Incentivized Helpful? LH Liz Hogan Content Manager Chose Blender DaVinci Resolve is also free to a point. They are [compatible]. However, you can mostly use it for video editing and graphic editing. Incentivized Helpful? DV Dominique Vilbrun Lead Designer Chose Blender The biggest advantage of Blender over these alternatives was how easy it was to learn, even for team members with no previous experience in 3D modeling, design, or any artistic field. The fact that it allows you to import or export files in most of the existing 3D model … Incentivized Helpful? Salomi Rai Junior Animator Chose Blender Every software has its own use. Despite being similar software, we use every software for different purposes. Personally, I use Blender for modeling and sculpting, Maya for animation, substance painter for texturing, and so on. So, my advice for you is that you should explore … Incentivized Helpful? Aniket Kumar Chaudhary Content Writer & Video Editor Chose Blender To date, Maya has been and is the undisputed leader in the sector. Despite being at such a high price, there is really no substitute for Maya's quality. Therefore, the use of Incentivized Helpful? DF Dominic Farrow Graphic Designer Chose Blender Adobe Animate doesn't do half of the things that Blender can. Blender is an all-around better program in the fact that it can 3D model, sculpt, and animate in real-time. Blender is also completely free and has tons of free resources available to everyone. I highly recommend … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Blender Blender is just as good as Cinema 4D. One huge advantage Blender has is that its free and you don't have to worry about upgrades or license upgrades when wanting to download or purchase the latest version Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro 3d modeling Pro Free and open Pro Open source
Top Cons	Minus New users Minus Lot of features Minus Working with large

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User Ratings
	Blender
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (23 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Blender
Likelihood to Recommend	Open Source Blender is an excellent tool for everything from simple to complex 3D animations, the creation of 3D images, etc. It performs excellently in all of these areas. In the realm of 3D modelling, animation and rendering, there is very little that Blender is not suited for. Incentivized Kèlene Poyurs Co-Founder Read full review
Pros	Open Source Creating complex polygonal geometries is very easy in Blender. Edit Mode and Sculpt Mode helps in creating non uniform surfaces for objects like rocks, surfaces, terrains etc. Blender can use various external plugins to make it work in more smoother way. For example to import any 3d object one can use sketchfab plugin and easily import the free assets from web after logging in. Blender has a better rendering engine known as Cycles, it is far more better than any other stock rendering engine which can generate realistic lightning, shadows and reflections. The animations can easily be generated with blender animation toolbar and also it incorporate any other animations made in any other software. The bone generation and its behavior of animations can be achieved easily in blender. Incentivized Jitendra Choubisa AR VR Content Developer Read full review
Cons	Open Source It's really a hard question, but it could be: a game engine. Older versions used to have it; I would use it to simulate machines game-like. I'm struggling to find another one; maybe the fact that it is so powerful and has so many features that learning it can be daunting; better documentation WITH examples and/or a map of Blender capabilities would help to know where you are in terms of knowledge and the planning the roadmap to where you want to go. Precision modeling. Coming from CAD and using Blender as part of my design workflow, I'd love to be able to model inside Blender as I model with CAD tools. At this moment, it's simply impossible. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Open Source We've only used the consumer (non-pro) version of SketchUp, which we love, but is very limited in features and output capabilities compared to Blender. While Blender's learning curve is MUCH steeper than SketchUp, it feels like truly complete, professional design software. Incentivized ME Matt Eddy Creative Director Read full review
Return on Investment	Open Source As it is a beginner-friendly software with increasing demand in the animation sector again, it positively impacts the business. Except in some specific cases, no one will use Blender on their own at a professional level. When I was a beginner, it took me a lot of time to learn, consequently designing the creation. But if we want to learn to master Blender, we can do it. As long as we have time and a lot of willpower, since, we repeat, it is not a simple program and hides thousands of tools and possibilities. Incentivized Aniket Kumar Chaudhary Content Writer & Video Editor Read full review
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