Blender is fucking awesome.
I picked up Blender at the start of 2020 after years and years (and a shipped title!) of using 3D Studio Max, mostly because it seemed like max wasn’t going anywhere and Blender was on the up and up. Oh, and cause Blender is free. And max is like 1600 bucks. And Autodesk sucks.
But yeah, turns out, Blender is pretty great by it’s own merit! And in the context of these “tech” posts, I’m not worried about a rugpull.
- Free Open Source
- Relatively well funded team backed by major players
- Backwards and forwards compatible files
- Massive community (and still growing!)
- Zero logins
- Fully local. No cloud nonsense
Worse case scenario, I can always keep using whatever the last good version is. At risk of somehow weirdly jinxing myself, I feel very comfortable making Blender an integral part of work moving forward.