Blender

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Introduction

This is an attempt at using Blender, an open-source, free, 3D modeling software to render, pose and animate objects exported from Pymol.

Blender may be downloaded freely for all major platforms (Win/Mac/Linux), from: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

A great starting place for getting comfortable with Blender is the Blender Wiki: http://wiki.blender.org/

These tutorials are for Windows.

Tutorials

Representative examples. Please change/improve.

1. Importing a PyMol Structure into Blender

2. Translucent Surfaces

High quality translucent surfaces, better than PyMOL's internal renderer/ray-tracer.

3. Joining Atoms

Why Blender?

Blender is FREE (as in beer)
Blender is Open Source and therefore FREE (as in freedom)
Blender is an extremely capable 3D graphics program and perhaps the only FOSS program capable of taking on similar commercial software head-to-head (Maya/Max/Modo etc.)
To see some examples of what Blender can do check out:

Blender Help

Blender is a perfect complement to PyMOL for creating high quality images and animation, but has a pretty steep learning curve. The following are a few resources that may be of help along the way:

References

Blender : http://www.blender.org/