Blender

Latest Version: 2.46 RC1 (03/16/2008)

Blender is a very powerful and widely used 3D animation package. It also sports an advanced node based compositor. It can handle the most basic video sequencing, but is not made for that purpose. There is some talk about adding NLE functionality.

Blender
Blender Blender

Website: http://www.blender.org


Editor Ratings
Power: 9
Ease of use: 5
Stability: 9

Latest News:

05/30/08

The serious and dedicated people in the Blender community have finished and released a beautiful animated short titled Big Buck Bunny. More info here: bigbuckbunny.org

05/19/08
And a very notable release at that. Impressive improvements in fur and rendering, some nuts and bolts that will make rigging much more solid, and much more. Click here for a list of added features.
04/30/08
You should be seeing 2.46 available in a few weeks to coincide with the Peach premiere. There are some very noteworthy features you can read about here: http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-245/
03/16/08
You can download and test the candidate for 2.46 now.