Photorealistic Rendering 

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

Fast Modelling 

Blender’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.

Realistic Materials 

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

• 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 poseable character has never been easier!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

Camera and Object tracking 

Blender now includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3d scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.

Library of Extensions 

Blender is loaded with a vast array of extensions that you can turn on or off easily.

Flexible Interface 

Novice and advanced users will love the ability to customize their layout completely. From simply splitting their viewport, to fully customizing it with python scripting, blender works for you.

• Consistency across all platforms
• No disruptive pop-up windows
• Crisp text (support for retina on OSX)

File Formats 

Blender comes packed with import/export support for many different programs.

• Image - JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TAGA, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, TIFF
• Video - AVI, MPEG and Quicktime (on OSX)
• 3D - 3D Studio (3DS), COLLADA (DAE), Filmbox (FBX), Autodesk (DXF), Wavefront (OBJ), DirectX (x), Lightwave (LWO), Motion Capture (BVH), SVG, Stanford PLY, STL, VRML, VRML97, X3D