Its great to see that Blender is slowly but surely becoming an industry standard. I was talking to my younger brother about this the other day. He and his girl

Its great to see that Blender is slowly but surely becoming an industry standard. I was talking to my younger brother about this the other day. He and his girlfriend have just finished Uni. My brother is trying to get into a career with CG for film, and his girlfriend into graphic design. Its not great for my brother as he does have to learn a few tools like Maya and the like, but 90% of his work has been in Blender, which is wonderful to see for someone who's been using Blender since the "old-old UI" days (you know the one) when it was considered as having no chance at being able to compete. But on the graphic design side, the walls are much higher. His girlfriend can't afford the adobe suite right now, but it would seem has no other option. I naively suggested looking at the open source offerings and was, in the politest way possible, essentially laughed out of the room. I was told it didn't matter if the tools were as good or even better than say Photoshop, because its not industry standard. Bonus points as well if you use the most expensive OS. I'm not sure how true it is that you can't get a job unless you use those tools personally as well, but I'm no expert and I imagine they'd know more about this than me. I thought it was funny to compare to programming, which I do know. There are industry standard languages, kind of, but all the ones that are industry standard (key word being standard, of course niche ones do apply) are all free. Bonus points if you use a free operating system. I know they're completely different fields, and what "works" for graphic design would never work for programming, I just thought it was funny