Photorealistic Rendering

Blender now features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering.

The built-in Cycles rendering engine offers:

• GPU & CPU rendering
• Realtime viewport preview
• HDR lighting support
• Permissive License for linking with external software

Realistic Materials

With Blender’s new rendering engine the possibilities for materials are endless.

Key features are:

• Complete Node Support for full customization
• Physically accurate shaders like glass, translucency and SSS
• Open Shading Language (OSL) support for coding unique shaders

• Fast Rigging

  Transforming a model into a posable character has never been easier!

  Blender offers an impressive set of rigging tools including:

  • Envelope, skeleton and automatic skinning
  • Easy weight painting
  • Mirror functionality
  • Bone layers and colored groups for organization
  • B-spline interpolated bones

Animation toolset

Whether it’s simple keyframing or complex walk-cycles, Blender allows artists to turn their still characters into impressive animations.

Blender’s animation feature set offers:

• Automated walk-cycles along paths
• Character animation pose editor
• Non Linear Animation (NLA) for independent movements
• IK forward/inverse kinematics for fast poses
• Sound synchronization

Sculpting

Experience the joy of sculpting organic subjects using the built-in sculpting feature set of Blender.

Sculpting in Blender includes:

• 20 different brush types
• Multi-res sculpting support
• Dynamic Topology sculpting
• Mirrored sculpting

Fast UV Unwrapping

Easily unwrap your mesh right inside Blender, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto the model.

Blender allows for:

• Fast Cube, Cylinder, Sphere and Camera projections
• Conformal and Angle Based unwrapping (with edge seams and vertex pinning)
• Painting directly onto the mesh
• Multiple UV layers
• UV layout image exporting

Full Compositor

Blender comes with a fully fledged compositor built right in. That means no more exporting to third party programs, you can do it all without leaving the program.

The compositor comes with:

• Impressive library of nodes for creating camera fx, color grading, vignettes and much more
• Render-layer support
• Full compositing with images and video files
• Ability to render to multiLayer OpenEXR files
• Multi-threaded

Amazing Simulations

Whether you need a crumbling building, rain, fire, smoke, fluid, cloth or full on destruction, Blender delivers great looking results.

Blender’s simulation tools include

• Fluid – Realistic water and fluid simulations.
• Smoke – Billowing smoke with flames and scene interaction.
• Hair – Beautiful wafts of hair that blows in the wind and interacts with collisions.
• Cloth – Amazingly realistic cloth simulations for clothing and environments
• Rigid Body Physics – Makes any object destructable and collidable
• Particles – For creating things like rain, sparks and shrapnel

Game Creation

Included in Blender is a complete game engine, allowing you to create a fully featured 3d game right inside Blender.

The game engine includes:

• Ability to port your models to any third-party game engine
• Create or code your own game logic
• Full Bullet Physics integration
• Python scripting API for advanced control and AI
• Support for all OpenGLTM dynamic lighting, toon shading, animated materials as well as Normal and Parallax Mapping
• Playback of games inside Blender without compiling or preprocessing
• 3D spatial audio using OpenAL

Camera and Object tracking