My son and I are learning Blender together. I was an avid 3DS Max user for many years (Kinetix, then Autodesk), and Blender is both impressive and a comfortable

My son and I are learning Blender together. I was an avid 3DS Max user for many years (Kinetix, then Autodesk), and Blender is both impressive and a comfortable next step. Never did much with Maya, though there was a detour to Softimage for a few years... With a GTX 1070 video card, Blender has been quite responsive on a dual-monitor HD setup. Highly recommend that users try the Nvidia Studio Drivers. We started off using the latest game-ready drivers and the system was unstable, but after doing a clean install of the studio drivers (v 442.92), its been rock solid no matter what we throw at it.