My Choice Review
In this software I am going to be covering Blender 3D which is an Open Source Free Software. This Software was developed by the Founder Ton Roosendaal. This software is always being updated and right now I have the latest update and want to type up a review about why you should check it out.
Performance
"Disclaimer I am using my own setting on my PC that I personally made and so the performance could be slower or faster depending on what type of computer you have"
This software leaves a small footprint in the installing phase it has about 200mb+ size to put on your hard rive a lot smaller then a lot of the other big software packages out there. It is very fast moving around and it has no lag and even if you put a million polygons in there it will move, but when you do simulation in there is when it will start to slow down for you.
The Tool inside
This software since its Open Source it always has something new added to it every update which seems to be about every month which is very good for having a 3D software update that quickly. The tools they put are from Modeling to Rotoscoping and everything in between. It is an ALL IN ONE package that is for people trying to make 3D art or CGI short films on a budget. The Modeling tools in Blender are very intuitive but their interface is very different then most 3D packages, so you have to take some time to learn that. I will recommend a few books in the links below that I used that will make your use of Blender faster.
The Modeling has a lot of tools like the basic create cube and create triangle, and also shortcut keys like Shift+A to open up a panel to add a Cube or Triangle. There are Modifiers that you can add on the
This can duplicate the object like say a cube and make many copies of it without have to duplicate a cube 5 times to make this same scene. Also when you have that connected to the object you can edit the object of the first cube and the rest of the cubes will be affected as the first cube has been.
There are tools like UV Editing shown below
That help in unwrapping your tools and help with applying textures to your object.
The layout of this software can be changed to many types and even able to customize it, the layout for the Compositing is like this seen below
There is a lot of ways to speed up your workflow with this type of ability in this software, and you can create hyper realistic images with this render engine that is built in to blender called Cycles with an image to show what I can do below these words.
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| Created in Blender by Me |
If you're a 3D Modeler
This product is worth a try to check out, the interface is a bit different but if you want to take the time to learn it you can create images that are just as good as the other programs out there. This does have some drawbacks with trying to learn the program since it is very different but I will link to some books below to give you the fast track in learning this software.
Where to buy
With this software it is Free and so if you want to go to their site which I will link below you should check it out and download it they have Windows and Mac downloads and Linux as well.
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