

Fortunately, there are many tutorial videos and articles available regardless of your intent. The rest lies with you needing to develop the artistic skill and patience. There is a large difficulty in learning how to operate this program and its many features. And even after you customize it to be less cluttered, it will still feel a little uncomfortable. It’s crowded and occupies a large portion of your screen.

With Blender, you can make high resolution sculpts and animate them for professional use.īlender does have a few flaws, though. Fortunately, Blender is free and comes with a high-grade level of utility. This problem also includes any skill using a computer, since high-grade software is costly. Often when you want to learn a new skill, it’s expensive to start learning. It’s also great for plotting out how a design will look in 3D. The program is handy if you have a 3D printer and want to design your own game pieces, tools, or components. The installation is now complete, so you can eject the installer folder (by dragging it to the eject icon) and start using Blender.Unleash your inner sculptor and animator to create the most amazing 3D assets you can use in games or movies.īlender is a powerful creation software that provides tools for animating, sculpting, scene creation, and 3D model making. This will paste a Blender folder containing all of the contents of the disk image into your applications folder. Now select your Applications folder and press the Apple and V keys together. To do this click on the disk image to select it then press the Apple and C keys together to copy it. You should now see a finder window with a disk image named "blender-2.43-darwin-8.8.1-i386" (the name of the disk image may be different if you are installing a different version than shown here) open:Īll you need to do now to complete the installation is copy the disk image into your "Applications" folder. Once the download is complete you should see something like this on your desktop or in the folder that your web browser is set to download into:ĭouble click on it to begin installing the software. Depending on your browser and its settings, you will likely see a window asking if you would like to save the file. If you are using a MacBook, MacBookPro, iMac(CoreDuo / Core2Duo) use the "Blender 2.43, Intel" link. Select the "Blender 2.43, PowerPC" if you have a powermac G5 or G4 or a powerbook G4. The latest version as of this writing is Blender 2.43Click on one of the links below the "Mac OS X" heading.

The latest stable version of Blender for OSX can be downloaded at

Reccomended Hardware: Powerbook G4, Powermac G5, Mac Pro, MacBookPro, iMac (core Duo) Downloading Operating System used for thisinstalltion: OSX (10.4.8) Software version used for this installation: Blender 2.43
