Blender is a 3D graphics design program, it is free software and is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
It is used for modeling, rigging, water simulations, animation, rendering, nonlinear editing and for creating interactive 3D applications such as video games.
It is available for all major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Solaris is also supported.
Blender has advanced animation tools, various tools for character and character clothing design, tools for material creation as well as the Python programming language for internal scripting.
Features
Blender is relatively small in size and runs on all major platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows along with FreeBSD, IRIX, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Solaris. From unofficial sources it is also available for AmigaOS 4, BeOS, MorphOS, Pocket PC and SkyOS.
Blender Some of its features:
Support for polygon meshes, fast subdivision of modeling surfaces, Bezier curves, NURBS surfaces, metaball, digital sculpting, and vector fonts.
Flexible internal rendering capability and integration with the YafaRay program.
Non-linear video/audio processing.
The Python programming language for logic programming and additional scripting.
Game-Blender is a special project for creating video games with Blender.
