Animation

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• Animation

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What is Blender?

• Blender is an open source 3D modeling program
  developed by NaN.
• It was formed in 1998, originally manufactured as
  shareware.
• Until in 2002 NaN went bankrupt.
• NaN agreed to license the source code to the GNU
  General Public License for about 102,000.
• Making their software open source.

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Open Source vs Shareware?

• Open source and shareware are both types of
  programs that come free.
• So whats the difference?
• Shareware emphasis more on donations to the
  company from the consumer than open source does.
  
• Open source focuses more on modifying the program
  yourself to add on features it doesnt come with
  an sharing that with other users.

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GNU General Public License

• The GNU GPL is open source license for software
  that allows you to see the source code and modify
  how you like to further improve the software but,
  after modifying it must allow others to see what
  you have done so they can change their version if
  they like.

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Is Free software the best?

• Blender is a free program that allows users to
  create and animate 3D models.
• However, because it is free there are a few kinks
  in the system yet to be figured out.

MICROSOFT IS EVIL
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FUD

• The reason why people generally stay away from
  open source is that competing software companies
  use FUD (Fear, Uncertainty Doubt)
• In all just because it is open source doesnt
  mean its bad

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MICROSOFT QUOTES

• We have nothing against open source, from
  Microsofts point of view, its not a religious
  thing, its not them versus us there are a lot
  of things we have learnt and there are a lot of
  things we should learn from open source.
• We havent talked to a single user whos said
  theyre using open source because its better.

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Pro

• Its Free
• Allows professionals to spend less money on costs
  to make an animation.
• It is getting better
• With being open source it is constantly getting
  better improvements.
• If it doesnt have a feature you need, you can
  edit it yourself.
• It works
• The program can make fantastic 3D shapes and
  renders well.

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Con

• User Interface is hard to learn/use
• The UI can be very hard to understand and some
  feel that the time wasted trying to figure out
  the program costs more than other programs that
  cost .
• Its Free
• Because it is free, it hasnt been as well
  developed and is missing a few key things that
  some professionals need.

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Coke or Pepsi?

• What it comes down to is preference.
• Open source and closed source both have their
  good and bad
• It is just finding the program you like and
  formatting a bias about that program
• Ex. People say blender is hard to use because
  they are use to doing it a different way and
  blender doesnt do it the same way so it is bad

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Opinions

• I've always thought Blender to be a solid but
  completely useless application because for
  whatever reason, the developers created the most
  heinous god aweful UI known to man. It's a
  freakin eyebleeding headache that leaves one
  happily shelling out the hundreds or thousands of
  Dollars for a modelor with a usable GUI.It's a
  shame. Because Blender could be a contender, but
  since the developers live in their own little
  world with the attitidude that their app is made
  for a "certain group of people and not everyone",
  the application is basically a sick joke. If
  you're looking for a free 3D package and don't
  care how painful it is to use it, Blender might
  be for you. Otherwise, go with Maya or Lightwave.
  Also, Modo is a good modeler with a great UI, if
  you just want to model and not animate/render.
  l0ungeb0y (442022)

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Opinions cont.

• Blender is maturing well, especially considering
  if you look at the progress they've made since
  the code was first open sourced, and I'm
  confident that they will be able to continue this
  progress in to the future. I won't comment on the
  feature to feature comparison, I will just
  reiterate what the author said early on in the
  article - it's the artist not the tools - and in
  this case the an open source and free tool is
  sufficient to create some stunning art. Smerity
  (714804)
• I'd like to know how many of you complaining are
  actual 3D artists (of some sort, be it
  pro/student/hobbyist) of even an intermediate
  skill level, who actually made an honest effort
  learning Blender. No, opening it up, finding your
  left and right mouse buttons swapped, then giving
  up and going back to your pirated copy of Maya
  doesn't count. astralpancakes (1164701)

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Discussion Time

• Since Blender is free is it the best?
• Have you evaluated using open source software
  over closed source?