Blender Insights

What is Blender?

Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

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What other technologies are related to Blender?

Blender Competitor Technologies

Maya

Maya is a professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software, directly competing with Blender.

mentioned alongside Blender in 28% (11.3k) of relevant job posts

Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D is another professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software package that competes with Blender.

mentioned alongside Blender in 40% (4.3k) of relevant job posts

3DS Max

3DS Max is a professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software, directly competing with Blender.

mentioned alongside Blender in 27% (5.4k) of relevant job posts

Houdini

Houdini is a 3D animation and visual effects software that competes with Blender, particularly in procedural generation and simulations.

mentioned alongside Blender in 24% (2.4k) of relevant job posts

Cinema4D

Cinema 4D is another professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software package that competes with Blender.

mentioned alongside Blender in 44% (786) of relevant job posts

Autodesk Maya

Autodesk Maya is a professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software, directly competing with Blender.

mentioned alongside Blender in 34% (1k) of relevant job posts

3DSMax

3DS Max is a professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software, directly competing with Blender.

mentioned alongside Blender in 24% (1k) of relevant job posts

C4D

C4D (Cinema 4D) is another professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software package that competes with Blender.

mentioned alongside Blender in 35% (652) of relevant job posts

Blender Complementary Technologies

Zbrush

ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool used for creating high-resolution models which can be imported into Blender for further refinement, animation, or rendering.

mentioned alongside Blender in 29% (2.6k) of relevant job posts

Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine is a game engine that can import assets created in Blender for use in interactive environments.

mentioned alongside Blender in 16% (4.4k) of relevant job posts

Substance Painter

Substance Painter is used for texturing 3D models, and these textures can be applied to models created in Blender.

mentioned alongside Blender in 35% (1.9k) of relevant job posts