Aug 11, 2019 What is your review of Blender (Software)? Well, this isn’t a quora partner program question as far as I can tell, so This is probably the only program you’ll ever need if you haven’t worked with 3d before.
Alex from CGDirector writes:
Issanou Kamardine shares his collection of brushes, and includes an addon to manage them. I'm happy to share with you my personal Blender Brushes, with an add-on I wrote to simplify the sculpting. Hello everybody, today i am bringing you a software review on blender, a 3D modeling software, that is open source. I would also just like to say that the year special video is running behind. Our winning blender, the Black + Decker Performance FusionBlade Blender has been discontinued. Our new winner is the KitchenAid 5-Speed Diamond Blender, which we originally tested in our Midpriced Blender review. Its price sometimes fluctuates slightly over the $100 price cap we set for this story, but we think it's a worth spending a couple.
Hey there Blender Community!
After Blender 2.8 was released we saw a huge spike in Blender PC-Hardware requests coming from Users, so we put together an in-depth Guide on building the Best Workstation / PC for Blender.
If you are in the market for a new PC or want to upgrade your current one, check out our Guide first, so you can make sure it will run Blender smoothly!
As always, we are also looking to improve any info in the article with the knowledge of the Blender Community, so please do not hesitate to give some feedback or ask for support in the comments :)
Thanks!
Alex
Barely a day goes past without a new addon being released. It's awesome, but it's hard to keep up. So I've searched the community to find 12 of the best addons available today.
Last year we shared this list of free addons, but a year has passed and the Blender Market is booming. So in this post we'll look at both the best free and paid addons available...
1. Asset Flinger
What it does: Allows you to quickly and easily import your objects into other scenes.
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Probably one of the coolest free addons that speeds your workflow. It works by adding a new toolshelf in Blender which lets you access your assets and easily import them to your scene just with a click. It's still a work in progress, and has a lot of features to be added in the future, but it's pretty awesome as-is!
2. RetopoFlow
What it does: Makes retopologizing a mesh, much, much faster and easier.
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Probably the highest quality paid addon around. Created and supported by CGCookie, this addon is made for professionals.
This addon exists because when you sculpt something, you're not thinking about structure of your mesh. So the resulting mesh is ugly. But in order to apply textures, animate it or just make a clean render, you need to convert it into a cleaner mesh. Normally this involves a painful click-by-click method, but this addon makes it much, much easier. It's a toolset designed just for retopologizing something, and it's awesome at it.
3. The Grove
What it does: Generates beautiful trees.
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This works much like the Sapling Addon that comes with Blender, however, it has more improved features and a simplified interface for easier growing of trees. It's still constrained to Blender's operators which means you can't move, scale or rotate the tree until after you've finished editing all the parameters (kind of annoying). But it does as advertised, and makes great trees. It's the best tool for making trees in Blender, than anything else currently available.
4. EasyFX
What it does: Allows you to add compositing effects to your renders very quickly
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If you're sick and tired of making complicated node setups just to do basic things in the compositor (like add a vignette) then this addon is for you. It gives you a plethora of the most-commonly used effects and adjustments right inside the Image Editor. The very nifty UI exposes the internal parameters that would be rather tedious to work with if you fiddled with it yourself.
5. Mirage
Allows you to: Easily create complex terrains
This is the ANT Landscape addon on steroids! If you're an environment artist tasked with making a largescale landscape, this will save you hours. It shines in it's easy-to-understand interface with helpful tools like showing you the vertex count of a terrain you're about to make before hitting that 'Generate' button.
6. Matalogue
What it does: Gives you quick access to all the materials and lights in your scene.
Making complex scenes, means dealing with large amounts of materials, lights and compositing setups. This tool by Greg Zaal alleviates all these frustrations for you by giving you access to all this in one tab in the Node Editor.
7. Asset Sketcher
Allows you to: Quickly distribute your objects by 'painting' them into your scene
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Placing assets/objects manually in your scene can get pretty tiresome. But thankfully, this addon makes the job easier and more artist-friendly by utilizing a painting stroke approach to placing objects. It's as simple as clicking and dragging on your 'canvas,' (plus more tools). Awesome!
8. Animation Nodes
Allows you to: Animate almost anything in Blender!
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This addon brings parametric modeling and animation to life! I've been wanting a feature much like Houdini where you can input node values and have them drive object properties. By default, this is possible through Blender via constraints and python coding--but this addon makes it intuitive and easy to use. It makes it easy to do mechanical rigs, motion design, and programming. It opens up a whole array of possibilities!
9. BakeTool
Hassle-free baking of textures for your scene
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Remember the baking tutorial we did a few years ago? This addon makes the process and workflow easier, and much more manageable. It basically bakes all the shading and light information on your objects so you don't have to keep re-rendering all the frames of your animation. It works best in ArchiViz and games, and works for both Cycles and the Blender Internal renderer. So cool!
10. BLAM Blender Camera Calibration Toolkit
Easily match the angle and perspective of a reference photo
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This addon makes combining a render with a photograph a piece of cake. Using some clever programming, it accurately guesses the focal length and angle that the photo was taken with, so you can effortlessly put a render over the top :) We mentioned it one of our recent tutorials.
11. IK-Text EffectsBlender Software Reviews 2015 Cnet
Add special effects to any text in Blender
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If you've ever envied the effortlessly results from tools like Adobe After Effects, this addon is for you. It's a powerful toolset for animating text in Blender.
12. Gaffer - Light Manager
Take full control of all the lights in your scene
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This addon makes your lighting workflow a whole lot easier! Lighting in Blender can be fun, but it can also be frustrating when you have too many lights to manually adjust, and begin to lose track of which does what. Using this addon will alleviate those problems. It gives you control over your scene's lighting setup from a single panel, tweaking settings without needing to find and select each light one by one. A must have for big scenes!
Allows you to: Quickly and easily add realistic outdoor lighting to your scenes
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Disclaimer: We made this, so we're biased.
Outdoor lighting is more complex than just a sun lamp, so we created this addon to give you real world lighting inside Blender. It works by using real skies that were captured in HDR, and feeds it in Blender, providing both accurate lighting and reflections across the entire scene.
It comes with 80 HDR skies, that you can cycle through effortlessly:
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You can even try the demo before you buy. I used it myself in this scene.
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Do you have your favorite addons that aren’t on the list? Post in the comments below!
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