Chapter 1. BLENDER OVERVIEW

BLENDER OVERVIEW

This chapter introduces Blender, the world's foremost open source software package for compositing and postproduction. You'll learn about the features that make Blender stand out in the compositing world, as well as get some background on digital compositing. Then you'll get started by setting up Blender and taking a look at its interface.

What is Blender?

Blender is a full-featured, integrated, 3D animation application that provides a complete workbench for creating and producing video content. For compositing, Blender has three main workbenches: 3D texturing, node-based compositing, and nonlinear video sequence editing. ...

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