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- Industry: Animation
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You can't Go wrong with Blender
Reviewed on 8/4/2021
Over All Blender is a tool that is going to help you a lot with your work and with your money.
The workflow is faster because it is Shortcuts depending, maybe hard to learn at first but the fruits of the work going to show very quickly.
Pros
You have a Full pack in one software from texturing and modelling to sculpting and post-production, everything is integrated in it plus you can have the full app in a USB where ever you go !
Have been using it for more than 6 years and today it is more powerful and modern, they even added a unique 2D in a 3D environment feature that is unique to blender.
Cons
This is a hard one I don't think there is something I don't like about it other than it is a bit hard to learn but it is hard to learn any type of 3D generally. and the app can crash from time to time but same could be said to any 3D Software.
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Cinema 4DReasons for Choosing Blender
UI UX wise and the resources plus the fact that Blender is freeSwitched From
3ds MaxReasons for Switching to Blender
Because I didn't know better at the time, and I was just trying to discover 3D and the paywall was a Turn-off.- Industry: Design
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Blender is one of the best open-source software packages available
Reviewed on 4/10/2022
I've been using Blender for over 10 years now, and it's been quite an adventure.
In recent years Blender has quickly gone from being seen as a tool used by amateurs to a fully fledged 3D app. Companies like AMD, Google, and Apple have been contributing large amounts of funding and code to Blender, and it's starting to see use in many production environments. Blender truly makes high quality 3D available to all.
Pros
Blender is free and open source; Recently it has seen a lot more funding and has quickly gained popularity and seen increased use in production environments.
Blender is very powerful and tries to be a bit of a swiss army knife. Though it may not be the best at anything, as a jack-of-all-trades it can do a lot.
Blender makes 3D accessible to anyone.
Cons
Blender can have a bit of a steep learning curve for new users, and is lacking in some areas or functionality.
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HoudiniReasons for Choosing Blender
Lightwave was too inflexible. I learned to use it in College but quickly sold my key and switched to blender after the course was done.Reasons for Switching to Blender
It was free, and I was able to do pretty much everything I could in lightwave.- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
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Powerful but hard to work with it!
Reviewed on 18/10/2021
I'm annoyed about user interface and menus, I hope that in future the customization will allows you to make deep personalization. But when you need to do something really creative you absolutely need this software.
Pros
You can do really anything! I'm not joking, you ca do all you can imagine and maybe more. We edited videos, make simulations, modeling, textured, and more.
Cons
Menus are terrible. Working is really hard! You have to search on internet the way to operate, if you don't find some tutorials you'll lose your time, you can never find the right way to do a thing!
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
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blender the best 3d creation software
Reviewed on 15/2/2023
Pros
Blender is a very versatile and free 3D software that I particularly like. It offers many advantages, including a customizable user interface and a large community of users who share tutorials and resources online. The software allows for modeling, animation, rendering and special effects for projects of various sizes and styles. The animation tools are particularly powerful and allow you to create complex animations with relative ease. In addition, Blender is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, making it accessible to a wide audience.
Cons
I find the learning curve for Blender to be quite steep, especially for beginners in 3D, as the software is quite complex and offers many features. Also, the rendering process can be quite time consuming, especially when working with complex scenes or with advanced textures and lighting. Finally, it is not as widely used in the industry as some other 3D software, which can be a disadvantage if you want to work with clients or studios that use different software.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
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Hollywood quality studio with minimal budget
Reviewed on 6/9/2022
I really enjoy working with Blender, because there are so many sources of information and learning due to the wide community involved in developing Blender.
Pros
Blender is an open source 3d and animation software so we can participate in developing its features in it. And most importantly it's free.
Cons
We have to learn on our own to determine the right settings in adjustment to the hardware we have.
- Industry: Arts & Crafts
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Talk 3D, Talk Blender (Best 3D Software)
Reviewed on 11/12/2022
aside video editng, blender software has really helped me improve in my sculpting skills, as a 3D artist.
Pros
the blender software has a cental hub for tutorials that could really come in handy, and among all other 3D softwares blender seems to be the most diverse when it comes to 3D features.
Cons
For a smooth and comfortable use of blender software, user needs to make useof really high end, updated devices, and now not every one with the skills and low end devices can afford these high end devices, if some thing could be done, like providing a compactible version for low end devices, that will be great.
- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best FREE 3D and Animation software
Reviewed on 10/9/2022
Great software that I use every day for making assets. The best part is that it can do everything other software can do but for free
Pros
There are so many features for everything you need
Cons
It can be a bit intimidating for beginners but everything needs time and practice
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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Best free Animation software
Reviewed on 10/12/2022
Pros
I like that it’s very ease to create a project and the hard work pays off.
Cons
I don’t like that it’s free and everybody can use it. It should cost like 50 dollars a month .
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
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nice software
Reviewed on 28/7/2022
Pros
blender is good software, it offers so many powerful tools not offered in any free software before and gets updated regularly
Cons
it s so hard software to learn and take too much to understand every button role
- Industry: Animation
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Best animation software after Houdini
Reviewed on 25/11/2022
Whatever it's freelancing business or company business, this software is very helpful and quick to use.
Pros
Easy to use, easy to learn, easy to create, access to best animation features, game development...etc
Cons
Actually i didn't find missing part while using this software everything i ever needed in animation création i found it here.
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HoudiniReasons for Switching to Blender
Well sure Houdini is better but it's more complex.- Industry: Computer Games
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Blender: 3D modelling and Animation software for developers.
Reviewed on 27/6/2022
Overall I've had a rather pleasant experience using blender. The amazing lighting system and effects tool really makes this one of the best animation software. 3D modelling is made pretty simple once used to all the tools and functions. There are a lot of features that I haven't used or at least not to its full potential as some features can be very confusing to use. Blender the best free 3D software to use and one of the best overall.
Pros
Blender is free software which is always a pro! It is also one of the best 3D modeling software out there. I love how easy it is to import objects into blender as well how simple conversions are. Blender has an amazing lighting system which I use to create cool animations for game scenes. The rigging system is a very useful tool for creating in-game animations. There are many different tool to help you sculpt and create models. It has a pretty powerful text system which is very different to the text system of a drawing software. This text system can create 3D objects of the text which can then be edited and animated.
Cons
The few cons I have with blender mainly include that the software is not the most user-friendly. It can be very confusing to use at times. There's a lot of features which is create but it lacks tutorials to learn how to make use of those features. Likely other tutorials can be found online. The software can become very system heavy but that only for complicated models.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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Free 3D software that achieved industry standard level.
Reviewed on 4/8/2021
It is an essential part for my 3D career and I love that this software is free so it would be available to everyone who is interested in learning 3D. My overall experience has been good so far and I look forward to work with this software more for my projects.
Pros
I like the powerful tools for 3D modelling, 3D sculpting and the animation feature. The fact that this software is totally free made me love it more than any other software like 3Ds Max or Maya. The tools bundled with the software can help me create anything I want in 3D environment, the software is easy to learn and work as well.
Cons
There are some limited options compare to paid license software like 3Ds Max and Maya and sometimes when I'm working with a project, there is a bug that can crash the program but I'm careful person and always save my work frequently so that is not a big deal for me.
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3ds MaxReasons for Switching to Blender
Because Blender is free and easy to learn and use.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
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MY Review on Blender
Reviewed on 8/1/2021
Blender is so cool too with may functionalities like of paid tool. Rally loved it.
Pros
Blender is a free software and can perform incredible functions. The functionalities of blender includes 3D modelling, texturing, rendering, UV unwrapping, sculpting, fluid simulation, smoke simulation, particle simulation and may more to go. Using these functionalities one can make interactive 3D applications and develop video games. The system has keyboard shortcut for all the functions which saves time. The biggest advantage of this software is it has addons which makes the software modular.
Cons
Blender has many features and it takes long time to learn and understand those features. It takes time to learn and become a quick user otherwise you have to memorize multiple functionalities. The toolbars and other layouts can be customized according to user. The new user may not have idea and cam make them uncomfortable.

- Industry: Computer Software
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Blender - Design your own dream
Reviewed on 15/10/2019
If you are a beginner for the design industry and looking for free software with maximum features, Blender is the software that you are looking for. You can learn it free through free video tutorials and also you can use the software for free. Everyone can download and use this software. Therefore now you can make 3D designs or animations as your hobby. At first you may feel uncomfortable with the software but when you have a good practice with the software with the time, this will be great software for your need.
Pros
Blender is one of a best 3D designing and animation software I had have ever used. Since I did some 3D designing and animation projects in last few years, Blender helped me a lot on that. Most important advantage of this software is that the software is open source software. Therefore we can use all features of Blender fully FREE. There are no trials, demos, activations etc. Just download, install and use it freely. Setup of the installer is small in size. Other than 3D designing and animation, Blender can be used to do architectural works, video editing, VFX (Visual Effects), 2D designing and animations and much more graphic and animation related things. Blender can be used to make small computer games also. Many features are included in Blender to make a creative design or animation for the designer. Some of the features are texturing, UV unwrapping, rigging, simulation (fluid, smoke and particle), sculpting etc. Lot of works inside the software is designed to do with keyboard shortcuts to make the working process easier. There are many free video tutorials made for Blender in YouTube and many other websites (i.e. Blender Guru). Therefore Blender can be learnt yourself without any expense. No any prior knowledge about designing is required. You can begin from zero level with blender.
Cons
As Blender is multi-purpose software for design field, this can be little bit complicated for the beginners. It is very hard to access some functions through mouse pointer by going through drop down menus at every time. Since Blender has lot of keyboard shortcuts, we have to practice them. Then the functions can be accessed quickly. There are same keyboard shortcuts for different works when blender is running in specified mode. This can be a mess in beginning. There are some laggings can be seen when the software is doing CPU/GPU intensive processes like rendering and simulating, but it is rare. These types of bugs are fixed through newer updates. Blender does not have a powerful rendering engine when comparing with famous 3D animation software.

- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Powerful open source 3-D graphics software and editor that rivals commercially available tools
Reviewed on 31/8/2018
Overall, Blender is a very powerful tool, that can be used for video editing. However, because it is designed to be a 3-D graphics tool which also has video capabilities, it is not the easiest tool to use. I continue to remain intrigued by Blender and in a year or two will revisit it's video editing workflow.
Pros
Blender is used by professionals around the world. Because it is open source and has such wide usage and effort behind its development, it is very unlikely that Blender will ever fade away. Using Blender for your projects ensures long-term access to your files and you'll accumulate skills that will be useful well into the future.
I used Blender only for video editing so I cannot comment on its other features.
Strong video editing capabilities - it is relatively easy to import footage and to make basic cuts, move footage, and add basic fades and transitions.
To simplify the import of video clips, install the Kinoraw Tools addon.
It offers a good way to import media clips through the file browser. The Kinoraw tool will allow you to import all files in the browser, or
This plugin adds features that allow the user to select large numbers of small clips and snap the selection to a designated clip. It also allows selection by type of clip so its easy to grab all of the sound clips to export to an audio editor. The plugin also includes an "inverse" selector to select everything except the currently selected clip. The Kinoraw tool also includes a convenient fade-in fade-out tool accessible in the Strip menu option
Cons
After reading and watching many tutorials on using Blender for video editing, I hoped to rely on Blender exclusively for video creation.
While Blender indeed offers powerful video editing features, the average person will not find it easy to use.
Blender cannot automatically detect resolution and frame rates so if you have video from different cameras and wish to edit these different resolutions files in the timeline in Blender, you will encounter numerous problems. Software should be able to detect these various settings automatically and make necessary adjustments or at the very least, warn the user that the clips are incompatible and guide the user through various fixes.
There were too many other problems with trying to edit a 2 hour film and I eventually gave up and moved to the open-source video editor Kdenlive.
Regardless of my experience, many users in fact rely on Blender for video editing and enjoy the process. Maybe you will find it to be the best tool for you.
- Industry: Design
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Blender: A Comprehensive and User-Friendly 3D Creation Software
Reviewed on 17/1/2023
Blender is a powerful and versatile 3D creation software that has a wide range of features and tools for modeling, texturing, lighting, and animation. It is free and open-source, which makes it accessible to a wide range of users, and has a large community of developers and users who contribute to its development and provide support. Blender's interface is user-friendly and well-organized, but it may have a steeper learning curve than some other 3D software. It also has a built-in compositor and video editor, which allows users to create complete projects, from start to finish, within the software. Overall, Blender is a highly recommended software for anyone looking for a powerful, free and open-source 3D creation software.
Pros
Blender is a powerful and versatile 3D creation software that is widely used by digital artists in a variety of industries. It is a free and open-source software, which means that it is accessible to a wide range of users, and has a large community of developers and users who contribute to its development and provide support.One of the strengths of Blender is its wide range of features and tools. It offers a full suite of modeling, texturing, lighting, and animation tools, making it an all-in-one solution for 3D content creation. Additionally, it also has a built-in compositor and video editor, which allows users to create complete projects, from start to finish, within the software.Another strength of Blender is its user-friendly interface, which is well-organized and easy to navigate. It also has a large number of tutorials and documentation available online, which helps new users to get started quickly and easily.However, Blender has a steeper learning curve than some other 3D software. It may take some time to master all the features and tools. But once you get the hang of it, it can be a great tool for creating professional-quality 3D content.Overall, Blender is a highly recommended software for anyone looking for a powerful, free and open-source 3D creation software. It has a wide range of features, tools and active community that can help you achieve professional results.
Cons
one thing that some users may find challenging about Blender is that it has a steeper learning curve compared to some other 3D software. It can take some time to master all the features and tools, but once the user gets a hang of it, it can be a great tool for creating professional-quality 3D content. Additionally, Blender's UI may be less intuitive than some other 3D software, so it may take some time to get used to the interface.

- Industry: Arts & Crafts
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
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Brand new look
Reviewed on 21/12/2019
In 2019 Blender changed a lot, making the software easy to manage. UI became simpler and more intuitive and the general design changes made it so much more viable as a professional 3D program. I have used it over the years for small projects, although they always took quite long, as the learning curve was extremely steep and for each small project there had to be hours of research. Coming back after the new version was released, I have reached my goals quite easily, effectively reducing time spent on each project.
Pros
Blender's UI is clean, elegant and intuitive. Its features are on par with those of professional 3D suites, which makes it a free alternative to industry's most known programs. The performance is quite good, considering I've been using it on a low-end PC and besides some issues with particle system, there's no considerable lag or stuttering. Plugins, extensions and user-created content makes it easy to customize and prepare for any 3D work and environment.
Cons
As the new version changed the software, the available guides and tutorials are mostly outdated, making it a bit harder to find a good learning source, as the changes were so drastic that simple commands or keybinds no longer work. Due to that some problems require reaching out to the community, which may not respond within the time constraints a professional may have.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
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Amazingly powerful
Reviewed on 13/3/2021
Blender has been amazing as my software for 3D animations. The power that it offers while remaining completely free is excellent.
Pros
Coming off of a trial of the expensive 3DS Max software, I was amazed at how fully-featured and - in some ways - better Blender was as a free 3D modeling and animation software.
The biggest pro of Blender is that it is free and open-source. Despite this, Blender receives constant and game-changing updates. Blender's complete UI overhaul and introduction of the Cycles renderer are 2 recent examples. This makes me very confident in the software, as I know it won't become outdated any time soon.
Cons
Blender has a completely different methodology for adding and manipulating objects compared to Autodesk Maya/3DS Max, SFM, etc. This isn't necessarily bad - you can get used to it, and it works fine. However, I do wish there was a preset that made Blender perform more like Autodesk or SFM.
I also wish the 3D cursor could be improved, as it currently feels very finicky to position and unintuitive. Maybe a preview window or some distance information can be relayed to demonstrate where the 3D cursor is relative to my curretn viewport.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
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Blender is the best Free Open source 3D modeling software
Reviewed on 30/9/2022
I love Blender, whenever i use it, i keep wondering how come all this power is free. and appreciate all the people who worked on it and made it possible.
Pros
Blender is a free open source software, it allows anyone to get started with 3D design and modeling very easily without paying anything, other 3D design and modeling software are very expensive.
the fact that Blender is open source it make it evolve very fast and it's widely used in big projects and competes with other big names in the market of 3D design software.
There are so many tutorials about blender which will help anyone to get started and learn how to use it
very easily. Also blender is a huge software and it covers alot of aspects of 3D modeling and design.
But be careful if you are going to use Blender you will need to decide what you need to use it for exactly
because since blender covers alot of different 3d fields it's so huge no can know everything that blender
can do. there are also many techniques and tools you can use to accomplish the same design or project.
so to learn and use blender very easily you should focus on accomplishing your task and getting the job
done, and avoid wasting your time trying to learn all the ways possible to do the same thing.
as long as there is a possible way to get a design done then just do it and move on.
Cons
Blender may seem very complicated and huge to new users, but it's easy to use once you start learning how to use it.
- Industry: Computer Games
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Production quality rendering and modeling for free.
Reviewed on 29/12/2020
Blender works well for me building 3d models for using in Unity game development. Plugins are available with support direct export from Blender to Unity, handling model conversion and scaling for you. Extensions are simple to install and greatly expand the functionality of the software. I have worked with various 3D modeling software since the early 90's. This is hands-down the best free 3D modeling and rendering package available.
Pros
The already intuitive interface has matured over the life of this product. Sitting down with Blender after using other products entails a learning curve, but the differences are logical and functional. Support for 3rd party extensions allows for more advanced modeling and rendering supporting Production quality work an a small budget. While there are extensions for sale for use with Blender, there is also a large collection of free extensions, improving modeling, simplying complex operations on models. Support via website tutorials, online documentation as well as a large number of YouTube tutorials make learning the software extremely simple and straight forward. If you want to do something in Blender, chances are someone has documented how to do it.
Cons
The learning curve is initially very difficult The interface is setup in a logical fashion but it is different enough from other 3d modeling software that you really need to take some time initially learning basic operations. Once you have basic operations and hotkeys under control, the software becomes much easier to use.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
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The best 3D tool for artists, continuosly growing
Reviewed on 19/11/2021
Blender3D is a software you can rely on. It never crashes, even if you stress it with big renders and enormous models. It can handle them with no problems.
Blender has become our internal go-to solution when we need something related to 3D and animation.
Pros
Blender3D is an experience. The software is extremely fast in all its operations and the tools are well thought and extended almost every two months. It is a software that grows so fast you will have trouble following it!
The community around Blender is great too, and you'll always find help and suggestions while using the software.
For us, the best part was the ability to customize and extend the software using Python plugins. Blender exposes all its functionalities to plugin developers and you can create real amazing things and extend its capabilities with almost no limits.
Cons
Plugin development (even if it has been improved in the latest versions) can be difficult sometimes, especially the debug part.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
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Free and Best 3D Creation Software
Reviewed on 9/7/2020
I edit videos for my company and sometimes also for my own freelance project. So I prefer to edit my videos using Blender. Because blender tools are really awesome. I have created a number of professional animations using the blender. I really like and love Blender therefore my overall experience with the blender is really incredible.
Pros
Blender is a very awesome and free 3D creation software. You can create and compose feature films using Blender. Designing Animations is very easy in Blender. There are lots of video editing tools and options are available in Blender. So even you can edit your videos up to the professional level in Blender. The interface is really awesome and you can even customize window layout and shortcuts according to your requirements.
Cons
The tools, features, and functions of blender are awesome. I never faced any problem or issue during the use of Blender. Even I export my work in a professional way according to my requirements, so according to my experience, there are no cons.
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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Blender is pretty much my go-to software when it comes to creating 3D projects, 2D Art,...
Reviewed on 26/10/2022
Ever wondered what a graphic designer does? It's like creating a magic trick. I used to design things for a living and for the past 10 years I've seen a bunch of changes in the industry. Software has come and gone, and I've been around for all the good ones. At the start of my career, I wasn't making enough money to justify investing in software, so I picked up a copy of Blender and I was really happy with it.
Pros
If you're looking for an easier to use, and constantly improving 3D modeling software for free, Blender is the one for you. I know this, because I just tried it out, and all I can say is I'm impressed! With so many free software options out there, I can't imagine why anyone would use Blender over others! From its high quality, to the constant improvements and updates, Blender has me hooked. I never struggle with the software. The community is the best, and I love that it is always trying to stay ahead of the game. Keep up the good work, Blender devs!
Cons
It is tough to embrace the way it works, so it takes a long time to get used to and learn to work in it. The latest versions go to improve this by making the intuitive and logical interface better and better. It is very power hungry and drains my laptop battery very fast. It is not optimized for portable devices. Should be run on desktop computers only as it heats up the system.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
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Blender is for your 3D modeling and video editing.
Reviewed on 18/10/2021
I use Blender for my teaching. My students love using Blender since it is very simple and easy to use. However, as mentioned, Blender crashes very often. Therefore, I always ask my students to save their Blender projects very often.
Pros
Blender helps you model 3D objects with all basic functions, i.e., translation, rotation, scaling. You can easily put textures and animations onto the 3D models. Blender also supports animation mode where you are able set up each animation frame and preview what your animation looks like. This is very helpful for your video editing. Blender also gives you the Scripting mode where you can code with Python to handle your 3D objects.
Cons
Blender has so many versions. This causes a lot of issues when you save and load your .blend files with different Blender versions. Blender sometimes freezes and unexpectedly shuts down. Therefore, make sure that you save your Blender project more often.
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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Incredible power comes with great compexity
Reviewed on 5/5/2022
Blender allows you to do things you could only otherwise do with very expensive applications. It is surprisingly sophisticated for FOSS. Kind of like going from driving a Chevy to piloting a SpaceX rocket compared to most other software.
Pros
If you're looking for a program to start your journey designing in 3D, Blender is an amazing, amazing tool. There almost nothing you can't do with it. It plays well with a broad range of other Open Source software say, for example QGIS or Unreal Engine. It makes it possible to do virtual sculpture with every kind of digital tool you can imagine and, oh yeah, it's a decent video editor as well.
Cons
The steep learning curve. You're going to want to get some help here by at least signing up for an online course. The tool box is huge and tool functionality seems a bit idiosyncratic. There also seem to be as fair number of layout changes with each new version - all for the good, ultimately - but requiring constant learning as well. I sometimes think it is best used for learning and experimentation and not so much for the average person's day-to-day production.