Blender is an amazing open source success story and deserves to be advertized as such. It's an amazing tool. It was always powerful, but used to be very un-app

Blender is an amazing open source success story and deserves to be advertized as such. It's an amazing tool. It was always powerful, but used to be very un-approachable (vim-like), but they have made tremendous progress to fix this. The integration with external renders has also been amazing. I am a fan of luxcorerender which - these days - is almost unusable outside of blender. If you like doing 3D work, spend the time to learn Blender, it's a long term investment really worth making.