© Ezra Thess Mendoza Guevarra 2020
E. T. M. GuevarraModeling and Animation Using Blenderhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5340-3_1

1. The Tour

Ezra Thess Mendoza Guevarra1 
(1)
Laguna, Philippines
 

Blender is a 3D content creation suite that offers a broad range of essential tools, including modeling, rendering, animation, video editing, VFX, compositing, texturing, rigging, and many simulation types. It is cross-platform with an OpenGL GUI that is uniform across all major platforms. It can customize with Python scripts. If you have heard of or tried 3DS Max, Maya, Cinema4D, SketchUp, Wings3D, or Adobe Dimension, and if you’ve used Windows 10, 3D Viewer, and ArtistGL, then you have a basic idea of what Blender 3D is.

Why Blender?

There are a lot of ...

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