Blender is a free software 3D animation program. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulating, non-linear editing, comp... More
We've written before many times about Blender, which is a powerful open source 3D modeling, graphics and animation application, for which there are many community-driven resources. Blender is in fact so powerful that it's been used to create very professional looking full-length animated movies.
The web, and the Blender.org site both have many Blender tutorials, and the free online book "Blender Basics" is a great place to start with the application. There are also many fee-based books on Blender, and a new one is reviewed here. Still, Blender is one of those open source wonders for which the free resources are easily as good as any fee-based ones.
No matter how smart a worker you are, there are plenty of open source tools that can make you more productive. They range from hugely useful Firefox extensions such as iMacros (which lets you record repetitive, multi-step tasks and then execute them with one click) to collaboration applications for efficient co-working. Here, you'll find five of our best posts and collections on productivity enhancement tools. Everything found here is free.
On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our best collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational toolkits are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and more. In this post, you'll find eight of our most popular collections of useful resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.
Linux lover. LAMP user. Have been using OSS for a decade now. Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, SuSE, RedHat...'Nuff said.