I’d guess you will need at least a U-series Core processor to get any type of mileage out of Blender. First, as with any type of video editing/creation software, performance may not be stellar. Thanks to the Crostini Project, you can install Blender on any Chromebook that supports Linux apps but there are some caveats. Still, a software this powerful that’s free to use is absolutely insane. IT’S FREE! Yes, you will probably have to pay for some lessons and tutorials if you’re new to 3D design and are looking to create a feature film or something.

Needless to say, Blender is probably powerful enough for any user and it has another distinct advantage.

The studio Goodbye Kansas has utilized Blender to create and assist the creation of game trailers for popular titles such as Overkill’s: The Walking Dead, Mass Effect: The Andromeda Initiative and the upcoming Biomutant from THQ Nordic. Game trailers are also among some of the big names that use this 3D software. The production company plans to fully adopt Blender for all future products. The creator of the Evangelion series recently used Blender for some of the production of the upcoming EVANGELION:3.0+1.0 film that will release in June of this year. One of the biggest names in the mix for you Anime fans is Khara Studios. So, when I saw some of the studios on Blender’s resume, let’s just say that I was quite impressed. Now, I know very little about creating 3D animation but I have been known to binge-watch a few dozen episodes of Bleach over a long weekend and I am a fan of well-drawn, mainstream Anime. Anyway, in our chats about video editors and my recent tutorial on installing Shotcut, we’ve seen a lot of comments about another graphics software called Blender and that’s the subject of today’s Command Line article.īlender is not a traditional video editor but instead, it is an open-source 3D modeling software that allows users to create robust and detailed 3D animations. Now, we’re still a little ways out from that becoming a reality but if and when Crostini can leverage a dGPU or external graphics card, there won’t be much you can’t do on a Chromebook. We’ve talked a lot lately about Linux apps on Chrome OS and the plausibility that Chromebooks could eventually be able to run resource-hungry applications such as full-fledged video editors like Davinci Resolve.

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