Film fans have come to expect blockbusters to deliver incredible wow moments. Commercial success often depends on highly anticipated, technically challenging animation scenes.
But big-screen visuals aren’t always the result of incredibly expensive animation tools. Blender is a free, open-source, visualisation tool developed 20 years ago by Dutch animation company NeoGeo and has evolved through community input across multiple computer platforms.
Blender is available for the Raspberry Pi, and pupils can also make great use of it to learn coding skills. Children at Elton Primary School in Cheshire recently embraced the opportunity to get hands-on animation experience when Craig Fisk, one of the volunteers at their Code Club, showed them how Blender works.
They were especially excited when they realised Blender is the building block for the 3D animation used in many games and films. Blender was used in superhero films such as Wonder Woman and sequences in TV show The Walking Dead.
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