Why people HATE Blender? 

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Not many people actually "hate" blender. Most studios have heavily invested in Maya, spent years developing custom plugins and wrappers and so just dropping everything to switch to Blender would put them out of commission for too long to be practical. This is true in the other direction too, new studios who build their pipelines around Blender would suffer tremendously if they decided to switch to Maya. Not to mention all your current workforce is trained and probably specialized in one package, getting everyone to switch is not likely to be a good strategy.

I don't hate Blender, I just hate using hotkeys. I've used maya and 3ds max for years and almost never use hotkeys. The only hotkeys I use is to extrude, to undo, to duplicated and to move/rotate/scale. My main method of working involves clicking on icons in the ribbon or selecting from a right click menu. I find it very difficult to remember hotkeys. I did originally learn Blender and used it for 3 years and constantly needed to look at a document of hotkeys just to do simple operations I would do every day. THIS is why I hate Blender.

As someone originally learned Maya, before Autodesk, I can say one of the things that make Blender great is actually the community. Tutorials, walk throughs, plug ins, add-ons, geo-nodes. Just so much out there.

People don't "hate" Blender, they dislike the rabid/insane Blender fanboys that plague the 3D community.

The fact an open source, free 3D package is even in the conversation with Maya is amazing. As I’m not necessarily interested in doing 3D professionally, Blender is a perfect fit for me.

Nobody hates Blender, is just not the most used in the industry bc is not the oldest software

After multiple tries, I'm still not a fan of Blender. It has some robust features however the UI, while much improved over previous versions is still horrible and the software is still buggy as Hell. There is no way it would be as popular as it is if it wasn't free.

Well I don't hate blender but I do wind up getting frustrated at almost every turn because it is so unintuitive when you get into the deeper aspects of blender.

Blender exists for a reason, to allow everyone access to the workflows and tools that exist in more expensive packages. It is a gateway for those who want to try their hand at something new, and if they find they like it, they can learn the workflow for that type of work, and get the basics down, this in turn then allows those skills to be easily transferable between packages, because in 3d, all the basic principles are the same, it is just the interfaces that are different. I started with blender, then moved on to Maya and ZBrush, and am now doing a university course in 3D Game art, I'm in my 40's but would have never known that I had an affinity for 3D had it not initially been for Blender. Its a gateway drug into the industry.

Thanks for crediting my work! Been using blender since 2011, it's astonishing how much it has improved in recent years! Keep up the good content 🚀

Guess the developers hadn't in mind the practical usage of their app as well, because its learning curve is still ridiculously steep for something claims to be a universally available to everyone. If that is a price for being "Open Source"... In Last 10-15 years I have tried almost everything from small indie 3d-animation apps and sculpting to RenderMan and other obscure things, but nothing gave me that much trouble with understanding even basic functions.

I’ve only been using Blender for a year but in that time I think it’s one of the greatest 3d software packages ever!!

I've known blender for many years and always thought of it as a very confusing and complicated app... but since the last few months I've used I've fallen in love with blender... the number of features, in the app is just 🤯 -- 2D animation, geometry nodes, video node pipelines, sculpting, video editing, physics , custom python code... man its grown so much... I've become a fan in the last few months..

0:53 Right there is the main problem with Blender, it is shortcut-driven, and that is horrible UI design. Having shortcuts is great. Forcing the use of shortcuts is bad. The more complicated the things you want to do with a piece of software, the more important it is that the UI adds as little as possible to the cognitive load. A shortcut should not be the first thing to learn about a function, it should be the last.

The impression of "hate" comes from the blender community being overly sensitive when someone criticizes "their" program. And Blender still has a lot to be criticized for, just like maya, 3dsmax or any other software out there. But the blender community has a bigger audience in the amateur/semi-pro market, which identifies much stronger with the program and hence takes critique a little too personal at times. Also when you're only really fit in one program, you tend to internalize all the quirks and problems, while being overly critical of the quirks and problems of other programs. I call this the "stockholm syndrome"-effect. I've been working with 3d programs for over 20 years professionally, now going onto 4 years with blender and i can say: It's just as great and annoying as any other program out there. I love it because i don't have to deal with all the stupid licensing shit from the big companies and i feel that it's the fastest developing program. But it was a painful transition, some concepts of blender are simply bonkers.

First day of University, I was expecting them to tell us to use Maya, but nope, these industry professionals teaching us... taught us Blender instead and I've never felt more at home!

Been using Maya for 6 years in industry. Tried adding blender in my toolbox. Took me a few weeks but I got used to the modeling and shading features. Not a bad tool.

my honest answer is because blender tries to be that multipurpose knife, instead of being best in one or two directions. blender devs are mostly programmers/coders, not designers or artists.they cannot know any little things artists need. many professionals wants to use blender. for interiors, for example, there are some missing pro features for it. rendering interiors are stupidly bad. yes cycles is good unbiased engine but for interiors it is not optimal. we may sacrifice some Physicaly accuration for a faster result. there is no some GI precalculation passes, even some open source might be added like photon map which is in luxcore. other important feature is ICC color management. blender does not use the icc profile of the monitor. yes there are some workarounds to make it possible but it is not what a pro artist want to do. he wants to open blender and work. we have node compositor. ok, but why not realtime node compositor? it is really slow when we have high resolution renders and multinode structure in the compo. next, we have denoise node in the compositor by intel. why there is no also nvidia denoiser node which is much faster? ok, what about hardware video decoding and encoding while working in video editor? this could make compiling our videos much faster. why not using all potential of the machine? if blender wants to be all mightly tool then make it to be so. add all possible existing options. i am an artist. i use it for my daily and there are really many things i am borred of.

doesn't matter what software you use, it depends on us, how we can learn and get an easier way, faster, effective workflow, the more we learn the more we feel comfy

Used to despise the interface and do it all but nothing great applications … then something happened. Grease pencil. It got me and allowed me to accept and DISCOVER that the interface and tools had been reworked . And then I found auto rig pro. Game over Hard ops and box cutter sealed the deal.

I think blender will get better and be even better than some of the current softwares because its more of a community that works together to improve with each update

Before dissing Blender, I would urge people who are serious about using 3D modeling software to take a damn class in Blender. I am taking a Udemy class and I can tell you that even though it is kind of slow, I am finally getting the explanation and instruction I needed in order for Blender to make sense to me. Like this video says, you can customize Blender to your needs, though I am using it default so that I can follow tutorials easily in the future. My advice: Be patient with yourself and take a formal class, working through the projects with the instructor so you get actual hands-on practice. The more you practice, the better you will remember the way Blender works. Maybe write down a cheat sheet of keystrokes as well. Blender is shockingly stable and has such scope as a tool. Get to know it well.

I use blender mainly for hobby (grease pencil animations), 3D and 2D modelling for game assets. For that purpose, it’s an awesome tool. For professionals, I can understand that they need a stable solution that fits into their pipeline. It’s all about whether you get the service out of the premium product you pay for or not.

Been trying to use Blender for maybe 3 or 4 days, watching vids b4 that. I downloaded the latest blender (3.5.1) and the control-shift-t shortcut to add texture images won't work. I have checked everything. Node wrangler is enabled. Images are named with proper tags. All it does is come back saying "no matching images found" when I navigate to the textures folder. I have D:\Blender_Projects\Textures and inside there are images and inside that folder is another folder with images and sometimes rarely it will let me into the Textures folder but not into the sub folder. I even took the node wrangler python script from version 3.3.6 and pasted it over the 3.5.1 node wrangler script, properly named for 3.5.1, and it still did not work. This is kind of why I hate BLender right now. Not to mention you literally can't remember all of this unless you do one thing 20 times b4 going to another thing. I think voice-driven AI for the interface would be great. Blender, show me the camera view with materials. boom. no shortcuts, just English language. Something most of us ALREADY KNOW. Okay, I'm done with my little rant. Anyway have any clue why I can't get the principle BSDF node working with control-shift-T ? thx!

hello, the big problem that some artists have IF they don't take Blender is that they have to buy or pay a subscription for "so-called" pro programs, it's that they will be forced to buy or take a subscription for a modeling software then switch to another animation software and then to an FX software and then follow with a compositing program...ect...ect...that's a lot of money and learning various software. .and whatever we say, Blender has superb productions....and it will evolve

Biggest problem is its not pipeline friendly and its very closed file format system, maya is used beecause its files can be read as text making very, very flexible in small to large pipelines, this alone is a huge advantage, however this will change in future if the developers can adopt a more open file standard. everything nodes is a great start.

This a well-put-together short video discussing the highs and lows... I have worked in Maya and 3DsMax... And what I desire to do - Blender should be enough for me... Thanks for sharing... I am even more motivated than before...

As a 3DSmax user let me just say, there is absolutely no reason to hate a free program that can do basically everything Max and Maya can do. True, it's a little more convoluted at times, and its UI could use some "Ease of use" love. But still... It's FREE!

"No one hates blender" -Entire Blender community "I hate blender!" -That one maya guy... you know the one.

Been a Maya user for the past 6 years, trying to use Blender now. It's a nightmare. The UX/UI don't make sense, basic features are very hard to preform, hotkeys are a mess and overlap each other, basic maneuvers require way too many keys to press and hold, very limited and restricted pivot controls and menus that just disappear. At least there is a search feature, so I can type the name of the tool I desperately look for. And the worst of all - no icons for tools. In Maya I can just look at the icon and know exactly what the outcome will be. It's much easier faster than having to read a tiny text that tells me what the tool does. It's all just very unintuitive and don't make any sense. But, I will say that Blender is amazing in the features it has, the flexibility, the plugins, the fact that it's free (Maya is very expensive).

Well, more importantly why does blender hate the the industry standard method of UI navigation? More people would have few or no problems with blender features if the basic interaction with the interface had a default option to switch to the industry method of navigation. More people would use blender and work around the short comings like every other tool. Zbrush is the only tool that can get away with a totally non-standard UI/navigation and that’s because of what it can do, but there are limits to what people will accept with Zbrush too. If blender was capable of doing significantly more than Maya could without any add-ons people just learn the app. Since that likely may never be the case blender should just add an industry standard navigation option in the prefs.

You forgot to mention that blender can drive you crazy! I changed middle mouse button orbiting to left mouse button. I wanted to change it back - wasn't able to - so I just installed the whole software from the scratch

I just want to chime in about the getting jobs with Blender, and thought you make a good point about the fact that there are many Blender jobs, but I also want to note that you can get a job using other tools, with a portfolio made out of Blender work. I spent a lot of time making 2D cutout animations in Blender, and now I have a job working with ToonBoom Harmony, a software I had previously no experience with.

after a year of switching from 3ds max to blender, I find it the fastest 3d software for my needs and very good to create EVERYTHING i want and render inside it or export to unreal engine. as you said a swiss knife which is the best swiss knife I've ever seen.

I am an old Modo3D user, its instability issues forced me to switch to Blender, but I must say that Blender clunky UI IS holding it back and is not just "something" to get used to. Examples: Copy object Modo: Select object, CNTRL-C, CNTL-V Blender: Select object: SHIFT-D Copy face/faces (to another object) Modo: Select face/faces, CNTR-C, select target object, CNTR-V Blender: Select face/faces, P separate, SHIFT-D to duplicate separated object, select first of the duplicated object, select target object, CNTRL-J (join), select second of the duplicated object, select old object you copied from, CNTRL-J(join) Other issues: Modo y axis = UP (like all game engines, Unity, Godot, probably Unreal, and most likely other 3D softwares such as Maya etc) Blender y axes = FORWARD, and impossible to change. For a well designed software this should just be a configuration change. Now I have to change back and forth between my engine axies orientation and blender :( Blender: Knife tool does not work, solution, change near view distance from small to higher value in the "View tab" WHAT? Modo: Extrude and scale always work as expected and create clean geometry. Blender: Uses a mix of Extrude and Inset tools, that many times just does not move geometry as expected, specially when vertices are close (creates overlapping bad geometry) Modo: Clean booleans with great results. Blender: Uhh better now in v3, it was a disaster in 2.8 (trying to union or Difference two spheres for example), but still not as clean With a couple of free/paid plugins, it does have a few advantages over Modo, but OMG the interface is bad.

I don't hate Blender. I just hate that the program is so awesome, but I can't use it because it doesn't have a pass system like Maya or Cinema 4d. For me, it's more of a frustration than a hatred.

Oh sweet! Thanks for mentioning Bforartists! Lot's of love went to the GUI.

I don't hate Blender, it's just... Blender is like the expensive Ninja blender at Target. The one that's like $250. It's great, has a ton of attachments, can blend smoothies right in the bottle, and even has modes for shaved ice and margaritas. You're buy it and you're very happy with it. Best blender you ever bought. Then one day you're visiting a friend who works in an upscale restaurant and you see their $3000 Vitamix that has no attachments or modes and only does one thing, but does that one thing in large amounts and to a higher quality than you every thought possible and is built for continuous commercial operation. Just sayin'

I started in blender about 4years ago... I've used other software as i expanded my hobby but I'm finding it hard and difficult to use most of them or even to get urrrhh like motivation to get used to the features and gui... I guess some of the hate could be from that perspective... When i first started blender as my first 3d software it was really confusing and a pain so transitioning to it from a software where your used to could be frustrating and might lead to people finding issues with it without even really understanding the software like a veteran would. I realise in the end u mentioned basically what i said ✌️

My main issue with blender is using texture nodes. There's a few time I would get a OBJ file from online and the textures wont load, then when I look in the texture tab is see the nodes are all pointing to the files but the render shows up as all white. Not pink when it's usually suppose to when missing images. The only way to get the image to appear is to remove the node and reapply it back again. This can be very frustrating. I'm a Daz user and when a texture image says it's on a Diffuse Surface that texture is going to appear no matter what. No confusing lines pointing in all these random directions. Blender it would show on the diffuse node linked and everything and not be loaded unless you delete the stuff and reapply it back. It took me a long time to notice this is how to resolve the issue. Texture nodes is just one of the few issues that keeps me from getting into blender.

I just started using Blender, and I'm greatfull for industry standard button configurations. Lets you speed up the process in learning the package. So far it's pretty cool it's just quirky with the way it models, but gives great results will be learning to rig soon since I do all that sorft of thing in Maya. I'm glad I'm learning it especially witht it's fluids.

I used C4D since 2002, last year I learned blender and there is no way I go back!

I just dislike how it handles Rendering, Cinema 4d main strength is how simple it is to render out an idea, you get tags for specifics, and very simple render settings.

Great job on this video. I'm not a blender user but this is pretty true. Use, whatever works for the job and what works, for you.

Where did u get your statistical data that ppl hate Blender?

It didn't come to life because they wanted it for free. It came to life because the company that implemented the first proprietary version went bust.

People need to recognize that next to no 3D developer uses one single program. Most tend to use a variety in order to get everything they want. In my work flow, I prefer Lightwave, yes Lightwave, for modle product and simple animations. It was quick to pick up, I love the layers and the fact that it has a separate animation program which makes it easier to produce model. I can make a model in an hour in Lightwave that would take a day or more in Blender, Maya and 3DS. The problem...my version doesn't have GPU rendering, it lacks some of the new features, I don't use it, but I haven't seen sculpting and it doesn't have a lot of the features which Blender offers for free. So since Blender is free, I use them both. I don't use Maya, it's just too expensive, and I no longer use 3DS. It too went to the subscription model.

When you open Blender for he first time: -How to delete this cube? -Why RMB can't rotate the view?

I tend to find more Blender users rag on 3ds Max. As someone who switched from 3ds Max to Blender, I can agree that it handles high polycounts a lot better and even crashes less. But does that make it worth taking out a second mortgage to use Max? I don't think so tbh

As universal instrument, Blender 3D could a lot of things, but doing all of them not so well as special software... But except hard-surface modelling, the main modelling process here is awesome in comparison with other software, and I like it!

Blender has gotten way more user friendly after 2.8 and beyond. Has a bit to go and still feels like a "young" software, and it is compared to 3ds and maya. But overall for hobbyist and even some professional work I think it's good.

I love the philosophy of always developing new tools, its the most exciting thing about blender and eventually will lead to some amazing software.

I'm a 3ds Max veteran who recently switched to Blender. It's an excellent tool for game development. (But when it's animation, I ditched everything for Cascadeur and Sequence on Unreal).

You know why I hate Blender? It's because every time (EVERY TIME) I need to do some fool thing, everyone says I can do it in Blender. Sure enough, Blender can do it. No problem. Very powerful. So, I open the program up... all right, I'm used to learning new stuff, I'm used to hitting the steep end of that learning curve, I can do this. Well, enough futzing, tutorial time. I find a tutorial that does exactly what I want, because there are tutorials to do EVERYTHING in Blender, because it does everything. 20 seconds in, I have to pause because the menu the tutorial creator hit isn't there on my desktop. Some time later, minutes...HOURS, I figure out I have to hit alt-shift-N or some other key combination and, hey, there's the menu. 20 more seconds, and I'm stuck again. Here's another fool comparison. SketchUp, remember that? Yeah, it's got an "inference engine" that tries to figure out what you want to do and actually helps you do it. It actually worked. Blender? Blender has a 9 page PDF of shortcut keys, in small font. First time I tried Blender, it was the old interface. Yeah, I've done open-source a lot, I get that it was made for the people that made it and I'm happy they share. I'll put up with a lot, but dang. Next, new interface, hey it almost looks "standard." 30 minutes in and I realize it's just a normal skin over the same 9 pages of keyboard shortcuts. Dang. I get some fool idea, try to do it, realize I need more software than my standard kit, try EVERYTHING else, then end up in Blender... because Blender can do it. So far, I've managed to get a pathway through a couple of specific things that I need doing. It works great, so long as I don't accidentally hit some magic key combination that leaves me wondering if I have to reset/reinstall to back out of. But, it gets the job done. At this rate, I should have Blender Basics figured out in 2045 or so. I hate Blender because it works. I hate Blender because my life is forcing me to learn how to use it. I hate Blender because it's so freaking awesome I'd be a fool to not learn how to use it. Everything I want to do... apparently, I can do it in Blender. Sigh...

For a beginner who just want to try 3D or indie game devs, Blender is the best tool they can use without spending much money. Blender gets more and more foothold everwhere. Tutorials are easy to find.

I love Blender! I used it to create the animation I use in my videos and my profile picture here on RU-vid. It takes some getting used to, but it's great. I prefer it over Lightwave and Modo. (Though Lightwave is pretty MIA at this point.)

Blender, when I used it many years ago, was a very frustrating experience and all the courses and tutorials that now exist weren't there at the time, so some of us just moved on and tried other things and, based on that initial experience, don't really feel like switching to Blender even if it does sound way more usable now

And it’s super convenient to model pieces in blender and put it together in unreal with nanite… fixing the high polycount issue… and using unreal is also free for small companies.

For my work that I do, where I don't actually create assets, but merely work with them. I switched from Blender to Unreal Engine. And although at first I felt I made a huge mistake, in the end I felt it was the better move. Because some of the stuff that I couldn't grasp in Blender are just easier in Unreal Engine. I will say that Blender has a fantastic group of people online who make loads of content, and anything you want to do has already been done several times over. But in terms of grasping it from a film making perspective, I prefer Unreal Engine.

I really be upset when majority don't understand that "there is no free lunch". This economic principle unfortunatelly is ignored by fun club Blender comunity( and other areas...). After Maya, Houdini is my way. The really important is if Blender is usefull for you. That's is the key.

If you learned on other packages, lightwave, 3ds max, maya, etc, blender can be friggin annoying. And not necessarily because blender is bad but because it just does everything differently. But if you learned on blender it's likely you would love blender.

If you learn blender from the right place, you Won't say things like It's a shortcut driven software.

I love Blender, however my biggest gripe is it sucks working in quad viewports, as you can in Max and Maya. Example in Blender, when working in quad view, maximize any of the four views, then go back to quad and the last maximized view becomes the top-right view. So frustrating.

Firts time it was very hard to use, but after I learned some basics it was my prefer software.

YO EMPECE CON MAYA, pero ahora uso blender fue dificil adaptarme pero valio la pena

Because it's unusual to use and requires a lot of of experimentation and is constantly updated. So it may be different to many users.

Probably because all the industry standard tools are the ones being used in the early days and taught in schools.

Clickbait titles are the worst thing to ever happen to humanity… See, I can be hyperbolic for clicks too

The clunky UI criticism was valid before update 2.8. Nowadays it has a pretty good UI.

you know what i need in a blender?, ready made model that is directly importing for my interior environment props, so i choose 3d's max or maya for complex modeling and sketchup & 3ds max for my interior design, i really liked blender even i still don't know some of the tools for my complex modeling, but i still stick to my current software.

I use first 3ds Max, it's a good software for modeling , after i try Blender to modeling and animating, i found the difference is on keyboard shortcut, now i use Blender to do all my project and i learn Maya because it seem we can do animation with more facility... my story resume what Blender represent in the eyes of whom who works in the animations industries, but the girl they love but can get married with her !

Being free means giving a chance to everyone...blender gives more than a chance...everyone loves blender

Blender is simply amazing open software and it's always on top among all 3d software, others are for business but blender is not. It is for the common man who wants to do 3d/2d animation for common use and understanding or expressing feelings by making short movies totally free. Gradually it will come to the same level as other highly paid software. Geometry node is really amazing and i think no other software have this.

Blender's UI is mostly very polished imho and I've always found the program very intuitive to use. Coming from an engineering background I've noticed that most artists who've done some form of digital art academy or university have been taught how to use certain pieces of software in a very mechanical way, instead of understanding the workflows and underlying principles that are transversal to any software package. It's a pattern that's polluting pretty much any discipline, including my own field, where courses are getting very unidimensional and highly specialized towards software suites that make commercial deals with the universities themselves. Invest your own time into learning skills, not pieces of software.

Generally it's fine but it keep crashing all the time, when I use 3ds max and maya they chrash like once in 3 days but Blender can easily crash 5 times in one day.

I've been using Blender for a long time. The best thing is plugins. There are plugins for almost every weakness that then make it great. The one issue I have that hasn't been solved to my knowledge is sketching. Last time I tried there were only 3 pressure levels. That may have been fixed recently. There have been so many updates lately I haven't been able to keep up. It's become an invaluable tool for video production and 3D design for me though.

I love blender, I just hate using it, gives me a headache. Shortcut driven is not good, bad for posture for starters

You are free to use what ever like and comfortable with, why there is need to discredit others for their effort.

I've actually never heard someone say they hate blender

This is an excellent video, your voice reminds me of John the diy guy for eliquids🤣are you guys the same guy? Prolly not lol but still, super chill voice, good info, thank you🫡💯

I use Houdini but Blender's Cycles X for rendering it out.

never heard of someone hating blender but ok.. i clicked and commented, you win

Blender is made for programmers and not artist. This is why NPCs love it and humans don't.

Collaborating with a Blender user is a nightmare. You have to have a ton of their little add-ons for anything to work.

I don't hate Blender, its a fantastic program that lets you do amazing things. I use Blender, 3ds max, Modo, Rhino and Solidedge (the last two for CAD). I rely on these programs and i think that Blender and Modo have the most awkward UI. Its like trudging through sludge. They both render fantastic images, but for the easiest mesh modelling and UI, i think 3ds max is better. It took a lot of time to understand Modo and i think i need to spend that time with blender, but it could be easier.

You mentioned Blenders present UI is similar to some of the Indusrty standards. I must disagree. Since Blender is key command focused, its UI is sparse compared to other pro 3D apps. I have always admired Blender but couldn’t get past the interface. Once the interface was updated, it was much better but I still had problems with learning all the key commands. I have always used 3-D software with a much more graphic interface. A combination of UI and key commands. I don’t have the time or inclination to memorize a ton of key commands to do my job. After some research, I decided to use BforArtists. The interface is much easier to use. It’s very similar to Cinema 4D, Maya and Studio Max. BforArtists has tools Blender does not and it is also mouse centric. For example, all of the navigation is done with the mouse and no modifier keys. That simply adds to the overall speed of use. If anyone loves Blender but hates the UI, check out BforArtists.

Blender is great entry software that is generaly improving and is good in many areas

i like blender bc the interface is make me feel like seeing a video game interface/UI and its nice to my eyes, i dont like an interface thats very very very very crowded like 3dxmax

blender 3d is the spark in the dark....... the history how the program evolved ,the evolution of this idea of freedom & sharing and working together specially is amazing .. thats what we need for a better future ... ... share ideas, tools knowleadge with the world and develope a free and better world...

For me it’s just too slow, lightweight in size only, other than that it’s pretty heavy on resources, outright unusable on Intel GPU.

Hate is too strong a word, but I see the same across multiple genres. Besides the fact that something is a industry standard, which does bring some oomph, people have an affinity for something and slam anything they are not used to and don't see the point of. Windows user will slam Mac (I have used both and don't see the issue), Android users slam iOS for much the same reason ("you can't configure it, so it must be dumb"), Burger King vs McDonald and so on. The last one mentioned kind of shows what it is; just a matter of taste. Just because you like it, doesn't mean everyone else has to, and vice versa.

I miss Softimage. It was the best by a large margin. Imagine how close to Houdini ICE would be if Autodesk hadn't bought Soft so that they could take it out back and shoot it. Right now I am forced to work in Maya at work and I hate it, but Blender is my personal choice.

It will be a matter of what level it reaches. If you are a student and preparing to work as a 3D designer, it is more beneficial to become familiar with most companies built on 3DS Max or Maya, as others have said, rather than Blender. If you have a certain level of technical skills and are confident that you can make money from your individual work as a freelancer, Blender is a great companion for you. (Because it's free anyway)

very well explained

As a graphic designer who occasionally requires 3D elements in my designs, Blender is the perfect tool for me. However, for those who aspire to primarily work as 3D artists, learning industry-standard tools is crucial.

The only 3d software im using is Blender, even for sculpting, when i tried to use Zbrush and i saw the UI and shortcuts i had stroke. I want to belive blender Is going to be as good as maya and zbrush in the near future :3

The thing about Blender that commercial software can't beat is the power of collective input. I've ignored Blender for a long time. When I was finally ignored by Keyshot after buying the KS ZB bridge and denied support, I was kind of forced into looking at Blender as an alternative for a renderer. This was a blessing in disguise. I found Blender to be superior to KS. I was impressed with all the tutorials that let you dig deep into the software.

Newer versions are very easier in modeling something than 2.49 or older

I am 3D Rigging (Maya)artist have 8years of big industry experience.. Maya is commonly used for most of the VFX studios so we learned maya and next gen will learn maya so they get job.. So for a studio it’s difficult to hire someone who only know blender and for a student it’s harder to get a job if they only learn blender and it’s become a circle that’s the only reason blender is underrated.. But i am sure no true artist hate blender it’s a excellent software for personal use or some freelance.. Hope blender will be an option for most of the industry soon so it’s get it’s true value..