We want to build a free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.
Advantages
Open Source
As a community-driven project under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the public is empowered to make small and large changes to the code base, which leads to new features.
Free to Use
Blender has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: Blender is your own 3D software.
Community Driven
Blender is being actively developed by hundreds of people from all around the world. These include animators, artists, VFX experts, hobbyists, scientists, and much more.
Blender is released under the GNU General Public License
You are free to use Blender, for any purpose
You are free to distribute Blender
You can study how Blender works and change it
You can distribute changed versions of Blender