Cycles is Blender’s ray-trace based production render engine.

Strong support of subdivision and displacement with Adaptive subdivision, Catmull-Clark and linear schemes, Displacement and Bump mapping.

Blender Cycles renderer features Unidirectional path tracing with multiple importance sampling, Multi-core CPU rendering with SIMD acceleration, GPU rendering with NVidia CUDA & AMD OpenCL, Multi-GPU support and Unified rendering kernel for CPU and GPU.

Designed for animation, Blender is being used for award-winning shorts and feature films.

Billowing smoke with flames and scene interaction. As well as fluids, hairs, cloths, rigid bodies and particles systems.

Blender comes with a fully fledged compositor built right in. That means no more exporting to third party programs, you can do it all without leaving the program.

Blender includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3d scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.

The Video Editor allows you to perform basic actions like video cuts and splicing, as well as more complex tasks like video masking.

With a large community of enthusiasts and developers, Blender comes loaded with a vast array of extensions that you can turn on or off easily.

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

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