Blender是一個免費且開源的3D創作軟體，在藝術家、設計師和開發人員中非常受歡迎。由Blender Foundation開發，提供全面的工具套件，用於創建令人驚嘆的3D動畫、模型和視覺效果。

Blender 的用戶界面設計直觀且易於使用，使得初學者和專業人士都能輕鬆使用。它提供了廣泛的功能，包括建模、雕刻、材質、燈光、動畫和視頻編輯。該軟體還支持第三方插件，可以實現更高的靈活性和自定義。

Blender 的社群也是一個重要的資產。網上有許多學習如何使用 Blender 的資源，包括視頻教程、文件說明和論壇。此外，社群還經常製作可供免費下載使用的附加元件、資產和插件。

Blender有廣泛的應用範圍。它通常用於創建遊戲、電影和電視節目的3D模型。建築師和室內設計師也常常使用它來創建建築和空間的逼真可視化。此外，藝術家和設計師也經常使用Blender來創作抽象或風格化的藝術作品。

Blender 是一個多功能且強大的工具，適合任何對於3D建模、動畫或視覺效果感興趣的人。其易用性和強大的功能使其成為初學者和專業人士的絕佳選擇，而其活躍的社群確保總有新東西可以學習或探索。

主要特色：

• 用於創建多邊形、NURBS 和雕刻模型的3D建模工具。
• 功能強大的動畫系統支持關鍵幀和程序動畫。
• 支持光線追蹤和全局照明的高級渲染引擎。
• 全功能視頻編輯器，用於合成和調色。
• 用於物理、流體和布料模擬的模擬工具。
• Python API 用於自訂腳本和任務自動化。
• 用於創建3D遊戲的遊戲引擎。
• 基於節點的合成器用於後期處理和合成。
• 在3D空間中用於2D繪圖和動畫的Grease pencil工具。
• 高度自訂的用戶介面，支持自定義快捷鍵、腳本和附加元件。

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.