In the past year development on Blender was funded by companies such as AMD, Intel, Tangent Animation, Nimble Collective, Barnstorm VFX and Aleph Objects.īlender 2.79 will be the stable Blender release for the year to come, while all development efforts go to making the next big leap for free/open source 3D creation: the highly anticipated Blender 2. The best highlights are features such as Alembic I/O, improved PBR shaders, 'Filmic' color management and fast OpenCL rendering on AMD GPUs.īlender's free and open source development is blooming as never before not only thanks to its huge online community, but especially thanks to a dozen full time developers that work on Blender and its Cycles render engine nowadays.ĭevelopers are funded through donations from the Blender Foundation as well as employed by the Blender Institute, but also increasingly by the industry. Today the Blender Foundation released Blender 2.79, a highly anticipated update with almost a year of new development. Technical Title: Blender 2.From the Blender Foundation press release:

Small executable size, easy distribution. This is the installer of Blender (a free modeling software) 2.79b for Windows (32-Bits), as it seems the old downloads are not present on their website.User community support by forums for questions, answers, and critique at and news services at.High quality 3D architecture enabling fast and efficient creation work-flow.Cross platform, with OpenGL uniform GUI on all platforms, ready to use for all versions of Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP), Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, Irix, Sun and numerous other operating systems.Fully integrated creation suite, offering a broad range of essential tools for the creation of 3D content, including modeling, uv-mapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animation, particle and other simulation, scripting, rendering, compositing, post-production, and game creation.Blender is one of the most popular Open Source 3D graphics application in the world. Through it's open architecture, Blender provides cross-platform interoperability, extensibility, an incredibly small footprint, and a tightly integrated workflow. Blender provides a broad spectrum of modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and video post-processing functionality in one package. Blender is an integrated application that enables the creation of a broad range of 2D and 3D content.

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