Blender 3d

[Martin Naef]

Andrew Tarpinian wrote:
> Started rock'in this. After having used pretty much every major 3d app  
> I'm blown away by this program so far, and that it's open source,  
> multi-platform and free. Plus it has it's own game engine and  

I'm currently using it for some project as well. The UI indeed needs 
some getting used to, coming from Maya and a few other more exotic 3D 
packages. I can't say that I've mastered it yet, but I did get some 
useful results. I also managed to choke its import engine with some 
multi-100k-poly models in the past, but others like Maya had some 
difficulties as well there.

> Peter to your comment earlier about open source programs having  
> trouble catching on, I think this is an example of it working.

I think Peter's comment was along the lines of "no open source 
application making a major dent in the closed-source business", and I 
haven't heard of many commercial studios integrating blender into their 
pipeline yet. But given the massive cost of the "big" 3D apps vs. free 
and good, I could see quite a few freelancers switching over. After all, 
its FBX import/export seems decent.

Martin