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Blender vs Mine-imator

Published Feb 15th, 2014, 2/15/14 8:42 pm
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TheColorBlindCuber's Avatar TheColorBlindCuber
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Hello everyone I am TheColorBlindCuber, and today I'm going to talk about something that is kind of bothering me. Now i have not posted a blog in a while do to the fact that my internet is a giant piece of... uhm, bird poop! But thats beside the point.

Blender vs. Mineimator

Two very very well done softwares! But i see alot of junk written about Blender, this just perplexes me blender obviously being the superior software to use for animating. I will give Mine-imator one thing that is probably why people pick it... Mine-imator is simple, you do not need to know anything about animating to do so. While Blender is a more professional software. I decided to make a list showing things mineimator can do compared to blender. Here we go!

I will begin with the one you guys want to hear about i bet, Mine-imator.

Hobbyist-Yes
Professional-No
Studio-No

Animation-Yes
Modeling-No
Rendering-No

3D Camera Tracker-Yes
Automatic In betweening-Yes
Bullet Physics-Yes
Cutout Animation-Yes
Fluid Dynamics-No
Forward Kinematics-Yep
Inverse Kinematics-Yea
Keyframe Animation-Yes
LipSync-No
Masks-No
Morphing-No

Bezier Curves-No
Color Transform-No
Deform-No
Layers-No
Metaballs-No
NURBS-No
Polygons-No
Procedural Environments-No
Rigging-Comes with prebuilt rigs
Subdivision Surfaces-No
Tablet Compatible-No!

3D Depth Field-No
3D Motion Blur-No
Ambient Occlusion-No
Global Illumination-No
Lightning-Yeah
Multipass Rendering-No
Raytracing-No
Render Layers-No
Render Passes-No
Shaders-No

Cloth-No
Fur-No
Hair-No
Procedural Textures-No
Toon Shading-No

Windows-Yes
Mac-No
Linux-No

FreeBSD-No
Mac OS X-No
Windows 7-Yes
Windows 8-Yes but buggy
Windows Vista-Yes
Windows XP-Yes

FAQ-Yes
Forums-Yes
Instructional Videos-Yes
Owner's/User Manual-No
Wiki-No

That's Mine-Imator, If you have anything here you think is incorrect tell me in the comments and prove it, if I was wrong i will correct it. I also want to mention that i do love to use Mine-Imator it is a very nice software and i am not hating on it. I think Blender is just better, glad we got that cleared up.

Blender

Hobbyist-Yes
Professional-Yes
Studio-Yes

Animation-Yes
Modeling-Yes
Rendering-Yes

3D Camera Tracker-Yes
Automatic In betweening-Yes
Bullet Physics-Yes
Cutout Animation-No
Fluid Dynamics-Yes
Forward Kinematics-yes
Inverse Kinematics-Yes
Keyframe Animation-Yes
LipSync-yes
Masks-yes
Morphing-Yes

Bezier Curves-Yes
Color Transform-Yes
Deform-Yes
Layers-Yes
Metaballs-Yes
NURBS-yes
Polygons-yes
Procedural Environments-Yes
Rigging-Yes
Subdivision Surfaces-Yes
Tablet Compatible-Yes

3D Depth Field-Yes
3D Motion Blur-yes
Ambient Occlusion-yes
Global Illumination-yes
Lighting-yes
Multipass Rendering-Yes
Raytracing-Yes
Render Layers-Yes
Render Passes-Yes
Shaders-Yes

Cloth-Yes
Fur-yes
Hair-Yes
Procedural Textures-Yes
Toon Shading-Yes

Supported platforms

Windows
Mac
Linux

FreeBSD-Yes
Mac OS X-Yes
Windows 7-yes
Windows 8-Yes
Windows Vista-No
Windows XP-Yes

FAQ-Yes
Forums-Yes
Instructional Videos-Yes
Owner's/User Manual-Yes
Wiki-Yes

If i am not right about something please tell me in the comments, and prove it. Blender is far more a better software then Mine-Imator, how I see it Mine-Imator will be a good place to start but not to cling on to.

Thanks for reading -TheColorBlindCuber
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07/16/2018 5:33 pm
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GuardJames
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mineimator is intended for minecraft and ONLY minecraft. So its a good animating tool if you want minecraft-like animations, not realistic. Also. starting animators with mineimator dont put much effort. and most dont bother try using its full potential. so for minecraft animations.. its... ok. blender, too complicated, to say the least.
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02/23/2014 10:18 am
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SaltedPretzel
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Yes You dont need to know about animating to do it, but minimator looks un-realistic and very unedited. It also renders in 240p....
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03/06/2016 12:50 pm
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Kilicil
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Not anymore, you can change that.
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02/23/2014 10:24 am
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TheColorBlindCuber
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Yes :P
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02/24/2014 12:26 pm
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SaltedPretzel
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Haha :)
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02/24/2014 3:12 pm
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TheColorBlindCuber
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I'm not going to lie ive seen some really rad stuff made with Mine-imator, but ive seen even better stuff with blender so... xD

If you don't know what I mean search "gods don't bleed" on youtube the minecraft annimation was using blender :D
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02/22/2014 5:09 pm
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SaltedPretzel
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Blender is much harder to use and takes alot of experience to get decent animations...but minamator is easy and looks very easy and basic and the quality of the anamation is awful.
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02/22/2014 9:28 pm
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TheColorBlindCuber
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I did in fact say this, Blender is a more profesional software, but im talking about the quality rather then the simplicty.  But when you do learn blender its as easy as pie! 
"Mine-imator is simple, you do not need to know anything about animating to do so."
-TCBC
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02/16/2014 11:43 am
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VastnessTheEpic
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I agree
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