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3D Blender

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Blender is a free and fully functional 3D modelling/rendering/animation package for Linux/Unix/Windows/BeOS systems. Blender is Open Source software. Have a look at http://www.upperfold.com/gallery.php to get an idea of the sorts of images you can create using Blender.

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Lights and Rendering

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Tips & Tricks

Getting Blender:

Blender is free software. There are a number of different places from which to download it. There are a number of different versions available as well as manuals and tutorials. To download for windows, choose the windows version from the following site http://www.download.blender.pl/ (Choose Blender Creator Windows.exe)

Follow these links to extend your Blending further:

The Official Blender Home
http://www.flyingsnail.com/blenderseven.html
http://10secondclub.org/users/juicy/started/started.html
http://www.ingiebee.com/tutorials.htm
Blender Cafe: http://www.linuxgraphic.org/section3d/blender/pages/index-ang.html
http://vrotvrot.com/support/browse.php?category_id=0
Bart's Blender tutorials: http://vrotvrot.com/xoom/tutorials.html
http://www.elysiun.com/tutorials.php
Animation and action editing http://mmaigrot.free.fr/didac-blender/ikas/ikas-eng/ik-intro.html
http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/freestuff.asp

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