Blender 3D creation suite for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Install Blender 2.76 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives. Blender animation software can be installed on Ubuntu Systems, via official PPA.
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process.
Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers.
The latest version available is Blender 2.76, which has been recently released, coming with the below changes:
- Initial support for Pixar’s OpenSubdiv geometry subdivision technology.
- A huge view-port performance boost.
- Big file browser performance boost and arrow keys navigation support.
- Node auto-offset feature that helps organizing node layouts.
- Absolute grid snapping in the 3D view.
- Sculpting with tiled strokes.
- Text effect strips for the sequencer, supporting subtitle export
- As usual, hundreds of bugs fixed and other improvements!
- User Interface
- View-port: The ongoing view-port project brought a big performance boost.
- Node Editor: Auto-offset existing nodes when adding a new one.
- File Browser: Arrow-key navigation and selection. Huge rework of internal code, now quicker & lighter.
- It’s now possible to display the correct (user edited) shortcuts of modal operations in the UI.
- OpenSubdiv
- Initial integration of the Pixar OpenSubdiv library.
- Greatly improves view-port playback performance.
- GPU tessellation support.
- Improves edge sharpness.
- Rendering & Animation
- New Point Density texture.
- Improvements for AMD GPUs (stability on Windows / Linux and compatibility with OSX El Capitan).
- Camera zoom motion blur support.
- Support for extended and clipped image texture extension.
- Clean Channels tool was introduced that helps organizing channels.
- A new add-on to create bone selection sets is bundled.
Install Blender 2.76
Blender animation software can be installed on Ubuntu Systems, via official PPA. Open Terminal and run the following commands to install the latest release of the software:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install blender
If you wish to uninstall and remove Blender software from Ubuntu Systems, run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get remove blender
Download Blender 2.76
Blender 2.76 is the latest stable release from the Blender Foundation. To download it, please visit http://www.blender.org/download/, select your platform and location.
Blender 2.76 was released on October 11, 2015