Blenderialah perisian ciptaan 3D sumber terbuka dan percuma yang popular di kalangan artis, pereka, dan pembangun. Dibangunkan oleh Blender Foundation, ia menawarkan suite alat yang komprehensif untuk mencipta animasi 3D yang menakjubkan, model, dan kesan visual.

Antaramuka pengguna Blender direka untuk menjadi intuitif dan mesra pengguna, yang menjadikannya mudah digunakan untuk pemula dan profesional. Ia menawarkan pelbagai ciri, termasuk pemodelan, pengukiran, tekstur, pencahayaan, animasi, dan penyuntingan video. Perisian ini juga menyokong plugin pihak ketiga, yang membolehkan lebih banyak fleksibiliti dan penyesuaian.

Komuniti Blender juga merupakan aset yang penting. Terdapat banyak sumber dalam talian yang tersedia untuk belajar bagaimana menggunakan Blender, termasuk tutorial video, dokumentasi, dan forum. Selain itu, komuniti secara berkala menghasilkan add-ons, aset, dan plugins yang boleh dimuat turun dan digunakan secara percuma.

Blender mempunyai pelbagai aplikasi. Ia biasanya digunakan untuk mencipta model 3D untuk permainan, filem, dan rancangan televisyen. Ia juga popular di kalangan arkitek dan pereka dalaman untuk mencipta visualisasi realistik bangunan dan ruang. Selain itu, Blender sering digunakan oleh artis dan pereka untuk mencipta seni abstrak atau bergaya.

Blender ialah alat serbaguna dan berkuasa untuk sesiapa yang berminat dalam pemodelan 3D, animasi, atau kesan visual. Kebolehcapaiannya dan set ciri yang kukuh menjadikannya pilihan yang cemerlang untuk pemula dan profesional, dan komuniti aktifnya memastikan sentiasa ada sesuatu yang baru untuk dipelajari atau diterokai.

Ciri Utama:

• Alat pemodelan 3D untuk mencipta model dengan poligon, NURBS, dan pemodelan pahat.
• Sistem animasi yang kuat menyokong animasi keyframe dan prosedural.
• Enjin pemaparan canggih dengan sokongan untuk penjejakan sinar dan pencahayaan global.
• Penyunting video serba lengkap untuk komposit dan penggredan warna.
• Alat simulasi untuk fizik, bendalir, dan simulasi kain.
• API Python untuk skrip tersuai dan automasi tugas.
• Enjin permainan untuk mencipta permainan 3D.
• Kompositor berasaskan nod untuk pemprosesan pasca dan komposit.
• Alat Grease pencil untuk lukisan 2D dan animasi dalam ruang 3D.
• Antara muka pengguna yang sangat boleh disesuaikan dengan sokongan untuk hotkeys, skrip, dan add-ons yang boleh disesuaikan.

Version 2.70

Cycles Rendering
Cycles now has initial support for volume rendering including emission, absorption and scattering. Volume rendering can be used to render effects like fire, smoke, mist, absorption in glass, and many other effects that can't be represented by surface meshes alone.
CPU rendering performance was improved, particularly for hair, textures and Open Shading Language.

Motion Tracker
Trackers can now be weighted, to keep the result stable as feature disappear or become difficult to track. The plane track workflow was improved to be easier to control. Automatic feature detection was made more robust using a new detector algorithm.

User Interface
The toolbar now has tabs to organize tools in categories. Multiple buttons can now be edited at once, for example for XYZ axes or color channels. Transform tools now have a mode to enter expressions and units. Other changes were done to improve lists, header menus, tooltips, buttons, menus and more.

Modeling
The Laplacian Deform modifier was added to pose a mesh while preserving geometric details of the surface, and a new wireframe modifier allows you transform your mesh into a wireframe representation. The boolean modifier now supports ngons, and there are improvements to the bevel, screw and triangulate modifiers.
The bevel tool now offers more control over the bevel profile and results, and the knife tool was improved as well.

Threaded Dependency Graph
An important change that happened under the hood is the threaded dependency graph. This means that object modifiers and constraints, among other things, can now be computed with multiple threads taking advantage of multicore processors. This will be most noticeable with scenes that have many objects, or multiple objects with heavy modifiers. This is the first step in making the dependency graph in Blender more powerful.

Game Development
The Blender game engine now supports discrete level of detail for meshes. For game developers, support for working with Photoshop PSD files has been added.
A new view navigation walk mode has been added, which has a control scheme as typically found in first person shooter games. This can be useful for game developers to navigate levels as if in a game.

Freestyle NPR Rendering
The Freestyle Python API is an essential part that makes it a highly programmable NPR rendering engine. This API has been reorganized.

More Features
Many small changes and features were done all over Blender. Some notable new feature are normalized display for FCurves, derivative map baking, baking to vertex colors, better visualization of masks and control over mask filling, gravity option for sculpting, negative texture values to support vector displacement and a Lamp Data shading node to create more customized NPR shaders.

Feature Videos
For a visual demonstration of some of the new features in this release, check out the feature videos created during the development of this release.

Addons
Several addons have been added and updated, including Node Wrangler (aka Node Efficiency Tools) and a new Sketchfab Exporter addon

Bug Fixes
In addition to the new features, over 560 bugs that existed in previous releases have been fixed.