Blender: Aplikasi 3D Modeling di ubuntu dan varianya

mungkin masih cukup asing dengan software yang satu ini, jujur saya juga masih asing. karena saya sendiri kurang berbakat jika bergelut di bidang seni desain grafis. tapi tidak ada salahnya jika saya share software ini. Blender adalah aplikasi  untuk modeling, txturing, pencahyaan, pembuatan animasi, dan pengolahan video di dalam satu paket. menurut salah satu forum desain grafis, blender ini merupakan salah satu aplikasi desain grafis open source yang cukup populer.

saat ini Blender sudah mencapai versi 2.70. terdapat beberapa bug, dan fitur baru yang di usung pada versi ini. berikut saya rangkum beberapa fiturnya:
Popular feature:

• Cycles Render Engine
• Motion Tracking
• UV Tools
• "Carve" Booleans
• Remesh modifier
• Game Engine
• Collada
• Python API
• More Features.

 What's in this release 2.70:

• Fix: View3D could have invalid transform orientation using undo
• Fix: Auto-perspective was changing to perspective while orbiting
• Fix: Black matcap when object located on a curve
• Fix: Z-offset problems with camera view
• Fix: Missing 3D view redraw when editing group layers and offset
• Correct GLSL preview: material using shader nodes didn't consider "Transparency" is a shader pipeline option. 
• Fix: Setting scene frame does not update active camera
• Fix: Dopesheet / Graph editor, select columns between markers doesn't appear to work
• Fix: Animation channels can't be grouped in action editor
• Fix: Restrict Frame Range not being obeyed on Driver F-Curves
• Fix: Bones are not selectable in weight paint mode anymore
• Fix: Crash on RMB click on bone's custom property
• Fix: Bone Crash when holding Ctrl+RMB
• Fix: Transformation bone constraint breaks Track To / Dumped Track
• Fix: Audio Only Sequencer wont render
• Fix: Audio does not Scrub, plays fully instead
• Fix: Motion tracker crash blender
• Fix: Plane track can't be adjust when select mouse is set to left
• Fix: Save to file - increment number doesn't update background color of filename field if hovered
• Fix: User prefs > Input - Category names cut off
• Fix: Default keybindings: Text editor auto-complete accepts Return, but not Numpad Enter
• Fix: Expanded Enum Alignment glitching
• Over 560 Bug Fixes

oke, untuk yang berminat install Blender di Ubuntunya, silahkan nuka terminal, dan copy perintah di bawah ini:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install blender

Source:www.noobslab.com