Blender
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software

Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation suite supporting the full pipeline from modeling, sculpting, rigging, and animation to rendering, VFX, and compositing. It is licensed under the GNU GPL and maintained as a public project by its contributors. Blender serves a broad ecosystem of artists, designers, developers, and studios across film, games, and design industries.
Blender provides an integrated suite of 3D tools — including a path-tracing render engine, modeling, sculpting, rigging, animation, and VFX — all within a customizable Python-driven interface.
3D artists, animators, VFX professionals, game developers, and designers
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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