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Blender's peers are products like Maya, 3ds Max, Modo. Go give them a spin and tell me about Blender. The domain is much deeper than photo editing and it appea

Blender's peers are products like Maya, 3ds Max, Modo. Go give them a spin and tell me about Blender. The domain is much deeper than photo editing and it appears to defeat an entirely accessible UI. Blender has kept pace _with its peers_ as a world-class 3D package. I don't think GIMP comes anywhere near to passing the same test. But, Blender has been showered with money and other support. What surprises me the most is that there has been no big rally for a real FOSS answer to Photoshop. Animosity toward Adobe is _strong_ and has been for a long time. There's no reason there couldn't be a convergence of moneyed interests in a competitor.

aifarts 3y ago
I've been using blender as soon as the first OSS release, and I never considered the UI to be "bad". Learning curve was much steeper than it is today, but it was very efficient after being learned. And that's the main point: I'm not pitting blender's UI choices against another product just on the merit of being accessible from the uninitiated or looking at another product. That's the kind of comparison you make if you want to make a clone of another product. It would be the programmer's equivalent of saying "I don't understand why vi is not more like vscode".