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Blender is good, but it's community-driven approach shows in the UI. It's pretty crusty and ugly, but in the end, it works pretty well.
by jlongster 16y ago
Blender is good, but it's community-driven approach shows in the UI. It's pretty crusty and ugly, but in the end, it works pretty well.
- windsurfer 16y agoHave you seen the latest iteration of their UI? It's much closer to the likes of Maya and 3DS Max now, and is quite usable.
- spiralganglion 16y agoAs a seasoned Max vet, and an avid Maya user (tempting to make an "avid Softimage" joke, but I digress), I find the UI to be similar to look at, but the similarity breaks down as soon as you start touching it. Working with blender is fundamentally different at the most base, intuition-sensitive level. Not better or worse, but different. It will be worse if you're coming to it already familiar with Max and Maya. You'll rub against the grain of the program. Of course, the same is true of moving between any programs that are cosmetically similar but based on different interaction models.
- wladimir 16y agoI agree. I've worked with MAX and Maya, and my experience is that Maya is at least as different from MAX as Blender is from MAX/Maya. The different programs have a different workflow. I found MAX very easy to use. Maya was harder, and Blender (before 2.5) was extremely difficult to learn. With the 2.5 release, though, they really improved usability of their program. I'm really surprised, and am now trying to use Blender for everything as I enjoy it most.