Blender 2.63a

Blender is an Open Source 3D creation suite. It has many features usually found in commercial software only.

It is one of today's fastest developing 3D-software. Open source code and active community allows very fast development of new features.

Blender supports all the common modeling methods including mesh-models, NURBS, Metaballs, subdivision modeling and sculpting. It also has tens of modifiers that can be applied to the models without affecting the original mesh.

Animating with Blender is possible with special tools as "Shape keys" (allowing facial animations etc.) and an IPO editor to manage any animation as a graphical curve. Also particles, rigid body physics, soft body, cloth, smoke and fluid simulation can be used to create realistic effects.

Rendering in Blender is possible using internal renderer or YafRay. Also other renderers are available via custom builds or scripts. Blender's internal renderer supports indirect lighting, hair, Sub Surface Scattering, Ambient Occlusion, Soft shadows, Motion blur and advanced materials: reflections, refractions, transparency and usage tens of simultaneous textures.

Blender also has tools like post-processing unit, game engine and game creating tools, Python scripting language and sound sequencer.