On 8/11/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
What exactly does Blender do?
It's a pretty flexible 3D modelling program which can also do keyframe animation. See [[blender (software)]] on enwiki.
Is it the program you could use to make a Pixar animation film? (potentially)
If you had enough processing power, sure. Elephants Dream (11 mins long) took 125 days to render on a 2.1 teraflop cluster of 240 dual-core Xserves. Oh and don't forget RAM, Elephants Dream used up to 2.8GB per frame.
Does Commons accept Blender working/output files? If not, should we?
I believe the .blend format is a container type format similar to ogg. You put model, scene, texture etc information into the one file and it can be read by any version of Blender. I don't know if it can be read by any other programs.