Blender for Mac is an open-source, cross-platform, lightweight, and versatile 3D animation creation software. It provides a comprehensive set of solutions for producing animated short films, covering everything from modeling, animation, materials, and rendering to audio processing and video editing. Blender uses Python as its built-in scripting language, supports the Yafaray renderer, and also includes a built-in game engine. With Blender, fans of 3D drawing can create their favorite 3D models without spending a lot of money.
Blender for Mac is a community project created by hundreds of people from around the world, including studios and individual artists, professionals and hobbyists, scientists, students, VFX experts, animators, game artists, and modders. So, what are you waiting for? Interested users should download and experience it now.
Features
1. Cycles Render Engine
Cycles is Blender's built-in powerful, unbiased path-tracing engine, delivering amazing, photorealistic renders.
- Real-time preview window
- CPU and GPU rendering
- PBR shading and HDR lighting support
- Virtual reality rendering support
2. Modeling, Sculpting, UV
Blender's suite of modeling tools makes it easy to create, transform, and edit your models.
- Full n-gon support
- Edge slide, inset, grid and bridge fill, and more
- Advanced sculpting tools and brushes
- Multi-resolution and dynamic subdivision
- Textured brushes and masked 3D painting
- Python scripting for custom tools and add-ons
3. Visual Effects (VFX)
VFX professionals say: "Possibly the best tracker on the market." Blender includes production-ready camera and object tracking. It allows you to import raw footage, track shots, mask areas, and visualize camera movement within your 3D scene, eliminating the need to switch between programs.
- Automatic and manual tracking
- Powerful camera reconstruction
- Real-time preview of tracked footage and 3D scenes
- Support for planar tracking and tripod solutions
4. Animation & Rigging
Thanks to its high-quality rigging and animation tools, Blender is used in numerous short films, commercials, TV series, and feature films.
- Envelope, skeleton, and automatic skinning
- B-spline interpolation for bones
- Graph Editor and Dope Sheet
- Custom bone shapes for quick input
- Sound synchronization
5. Story Art, 3D Painting, 2D
Really! Painting directly in the 3D view makes perfect sense. It opens unparalleled workflow freedom for storyboarding and 2D artists.
- Combine 2D and 3D within the viewport
- Full animation support with onion skinning
- Strokes and fills for layers and colors
- Sculpt strokes and parent them to 3D objects
6. Make It Your Own
Blender has a flexible Python interface for control. Layout, colors, sizes, and even fonts can be adjusted. Use hundreds of add-ons from the community or create your own plugins using Blender's Python API.
- Customize interface layouts and colors
- High-resolution / Retina display support
- Create your own tools and add-ons
- Drawing within the OpenGL view
- Connect to Blender's render API
Shortcut Introduction
- Connect two vertices: Click one vertex, hold Ctrl, then select the other vertex.
- Create a surface between two edges: Select the two edges, press the shortcut key F.
- Inset: Shortcut key I.
- Extrude: Shortcut key E.
- Loop Cut: Shortcut key Ctrl + R. Use Page Up to increase divisions and Page Down to decrease divisions.
- Separate: Shortcut key P.
- Hide: Shortcut key H. Additionally, Shift + H hides unselected elements; Alt + H reveals all.
- Move: Shortcut key G. During movement, press X, Y, or Z to lock the movement direction.
- Rotate: Shortcut key R.
- Scale: Shortcut key S.
- Move and Duplicate: Shortcut key Shift + D.