Be for artists.
Bforartists is a free, open-source 3D suite built on Blender, with an interface reworked for artists: tools you can see, click and reach with a stylus. Made in the open since 2015.
Blender's power, laid out for artists.
Bforartists is a fork of Blender. Every engine, tool and file format stays the same; the interface around them is rebuilt, so tools show up as icons, buttons and menus instead of hiding behind hotkeys.
Another way into Blender.
Bforartists gives artists who want top-level access, and the open-source community, a real choice in how they work with Blender. It also brings familiar interface standards to people who want Blender's power but would never have picked it up otherwise.
B for Artists: be for artists.
The name is the promise, kept in three places: how it is developed, how its community works, and which features it gets. Stylus first: every tool should be within reach of a pen and a click, not only the keyboard.
Every change follows the seven rules below, one careful change at a time, close to Blender.
An open art community with no exclusivity and no walls: anyone can test, share and help shape the tool.
Tools surfaced as icons, tabs and buttons, stylus first, with assets and sensible defaults out of the box.
Seven rules behind every change.
Together they make Blender easier to see, find and learn.
Top level access
Deep tools surfaced, so you point and click instead of digging through menus.
Iconography
Recognise tools by shape and colour.
Customisable
Toolbars and tabs you switch on and off.
Discoverable
Hotkey-only tools added to menus.
Consistent
The same menu order in every mode.
Documented
A manual written for this interface.
Less hits
Sensible defaults that save clicks.
An art community first.
Bforartists grows with the artists who use it. They test the builds, share their art, say what gets in the way and help each other on Discord. No paid tier, no exclusivity, no walls: anyone can join, and every release aims to make the tool a little more artist friendly.
Kept free by Trinumedia and its community.
Trinumedia maintains Bforartists: a group of artists who ally to sponsor other artists and build a viable business, so Bforartists itself can stay free for everyone. Sponsors, volunteers and the art community carry the rest.
Maintains the code and the servers and sponsors artists, funded by its own products and services.
Fund developer time and servers, once or every month.
Write code and docs, test builds and answer questions.
Make art, share it and spread the word.
Free, and staying free.
GPL v3, no account, no nagware. Everything you need comes in the download, ready the moment you open it.
Default assets and templates ship with the download.
No sign-in and no cloud. It runs fully on your own machine.
Sensible defaults, so you can start making art right away.
More artist friendly with every release.
Bforartists keeps following Blender, release by release, and keeps turning hidden tools into ones you can see and click. Trinumedia aims to grow its products and services so it can sponsor more artists to work on it. The goal stays the same: a 3D tool made for artists, free for everyone.
Bforartists follows Blender closely, so new engines and tools arrive soon after.
More tools in the tool shelf, menus and toolbars, stylus first.
More default assets, templates and manual pages in the download.