Item: Blender
Rating: 10
Author: Carlos Lopez

Overall Satisfaction with Blender

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Blender is a free 3D software that, when applied to audiovisual production, is your best ally when it comes to new ideas, projects, and/or social media content. It's simple, practical, and above all, quite competent compared to other similar software (Maya, Cinema 4D and others) with great support in the free software community as well as a wide range of assets and addons that complement the experience

Pros and Cons

Pros

3D modeling
Rigging
Animation
Motion Graphics
Renderig
Compositing

Cons

Game Develop
Sculpting
UV mapping
Color and 3D painting

Return on Investment

It has worked quite well for us for product rendering as well as advertising composition.
Excellent for running FOOH ads
More than competent when it comes to animating animated characters and creating Motion Graphics
Our clients (companies) have requested projects exclusively made in these formats.

Usability

Because while it's a pretty good piece of software, the default built-in commands, the interface layout, and certain functions aren't as logical in their way of being arranged and executed. This, of course, doesn't diminish its use or effectiveness in your field of work, but it is quite awkward at first. A big advantage is that Blender lets you customize the interface however you want as well as keyboard shortcuts and several general program parameters.

Alternatives Considered

Autodesk Maya, Cinema 4D and Houdini

In addition to being free to use, Blender is competent and complete enough to do the same things as these programs. While some stabilization is still needed in some aspects, many of these They work quite well and practically the same as them. In addition, Blender has a procedural generation tool called Geometry Nodes that generates nodes based on the creation of geometry complex.

Key Insights

Do you think Blender delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Blender's feature set?

Yes

Did Blender live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Blender go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Blender again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Autodesk Maya, Cinema 4D

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want to get closer to 3D, you are learning to animate characters, you want to learn how to block a scene, make 3D models for video games Without having to make a mega investment of hundreds of dollars and also currently being part of the professional audiovisual industry, Blender can be an excellent option for you.

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Blender more than free software a crazy creativity for everyone.