Blender is a 3D animation suite (modeling, animating, rendering), with integrated video editing, visual effects, motion tracking, and a game engine.

Blender allows the creation of anything you can imagine - for films, games, or any medium you like. In addition to animation tools; Blender has numerous modeling tools (digital sculpting as if you were working with clay; polygon modeling in traditional methods; NURBs, and metaballs); a powerful modifier system that can create complex objects with simple procedures; powerful texturing and painting system with advanced UV unwrapping; a complete simulation system (smoke and water fluids; physics; cloth; softbody; hair) and particle system to create amazing special effects; a built in game engine; powerful rendering; built in video editing, motion tracking, and compositing; complete scripting language and a lot more.

The Blender Foundation is an independent organization (a Dutch "stichting"), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals:

* To establish services for active users and developers of Blender

* To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license

* To establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation's goals and cover the foundation's expenses

* To provide individual artists and small teams with a complete, free and open source 3D creation pipeline.