Blender’s Splendor

This week one of my Facebook friend shared a Youtube video named Sintel. It was small 3D animation movie which was produced by Open Movie Blender Foundation. I had never heard about Open Movie Project and when i searched a little i found Blender is cross platform free Open Source 3D content creation suite. And there is lot of buzz going around it on Internet so i thought why we should keep our self aloof from boom. So here’s what i found, Blender has so far created three movies in Open Movie Project, this project is meant for creation of free 3D animation movies via donations by people. So far as many of us know Maya is a professional 3D rendering software which i#-Link-Snipped-#s generally used for creating special effects and 3D animations. Since there’s lot of fuzz going around movie markets about animations and special effects animation maestros are opening their shops all over India. Today even in India animation market costs several million dollars and career in animation is blooming like never before and suddenly an Open Source Animation tool makes his way to horizon winning millions of hearts by it’s mind blowing performance. It’s 2.4 stable version is out and since release it had been downloaded above million times, Blender’s popularity is grown to a level that Blender runs certification under it’s name and students across world consider it as one of the easiest way to enter animation market because animation suits like Maya cost you several thousand bucks and even needs to be upgraded nearly every year.

#-Link-Snipped-#Currently Blender supports full pipelining from modeling to sequence editing and can also handle complex animations like professional 3D rendering suits. Sintel is proof of the fact that Blender surely is challenger to all professional tools used for 3D animation. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Irix, Open Solaris and Linux, for Ubuntu it is available as one click download via software repositories. It is available in both 32 and 64 bit versions and it is surprise in small package since on any platform it hardly takes 25MB of installation space. It means it’ll hardly cost anything to your hardware. Wanna know what’s the another surprise Blender uses OpenGL API for rendering videos that means there is no platform available and there’s no GPU available that will show its ability to say, “I am not compatible with this software.”, even if you don’t have Graphics Card you can easily start with Blender. Blender has his own huge Open Source Development Community as any other popular open source software may have and full tutorials are available on-line that means you can even start without a Guru.

#-Link-Snipped-#Since all that blaze is roaring around world i found Indians are not even aware of new Ninja in town. There’s not even a single institute in India providing students Blender based animation courses. Many countries have already started using Blender to their professional counterparts since it cuts nearly 60-80 percent costs in development of project. Brazil, China, Czech, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Thailand are among those who are promoting Blender by their work. If you are the one interested in 3D animation and your legs were pulled behind because of high cost software and no availability of hardcore computer hardware. Open source has sent you a Savior named Blender, on-line manual, video tutorial, forum based support, professional help and even books are available so now stop giving unnecessary excuses have your pick and get started because now its OPEN SOURCE.

For download and more information on Blender please visit www.blender.org.