> I've started learning Blender recently. I had some previous experience with 3ds max and was afraid of the learning curve, but I must say I really like Blender

> I've started learning Blender recently. I had some previous experience with 3ds max and was afraid of the learning curve, but I must say I really like Blender so far. Blender has had a not-quite-earned bad reputation in the past for not being very user friendly. After the big UI redesign (which changed how it works, not only how it looks) that was started in Blender 2.5 and has now matured, I find Blender to be quite easy to work. I have used Blender since the 1.x days when it still was a closed source product developed by the NaN company that went bankrupt. Back then it certainly wasn't easy to use, you had to know which keys to press and they were quite poorly documented. Thankfully the tutorials were good and Blender became popular enough that the source code was eventually bought and open sourced.