why does every little newbie age 14 seem to have 3ds max and doesn't know how to make a box and export it to fbx/3ds? the answer is: no one likes manuals. people expect from technology that it does what you tell it. instantly. but it doesn't. no big 3d suite does. you'd be as helpless in max as you are in blender without a manual/training. but "blender" isn't cool enough to dig into, so they crack max and think it'll make em a great artist. so yes, all dumb, at least the majority. look at maya's ui, look me in the eye and say, "it's cleaner, nicer and less cluttered than blender's". but every week we get several questions from said newbies who try to "export animations to 3dgs from maya" and alike.

i didn't master blender myself, but i recently learned lightwave, so i know exactly what it means to dig into a new tool. i had to buy a book and a training dvd, otherwise i would have probably sold it already.

The way you often take part in blender threads makes me think that you are angry about it or something. I simply felt like doing some counter posts since I can´t agree to the generalization that "blender is hard to use".

Some of your points are right. For example it is the most downloaded 3D program so of course a huge number of people will fail using it and complain about it loudly.

What programs have you used before? Have you ever tried maya for example? Do you find that extremely complex program easier to learn than blender?

EDIT: I agree with broozar´s post!

@Broozar: Which training DVD do you have?

I am going to order this, I hopt it helps me learn Blender better.

http://www.yofrankie.org/?p=605

Thanks, that is what i wanted to hear

I am not angry, i just have another opinion. A opinion that fits to lots of others. When Blender would provide a more human UI more people would stay with it. Blender UI is one of the examples how a UI should not be.

Still, it gets the job done freaking fast. I see nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, i never said Blender isnt good or isn't powerful

I checked a lot of 3d tools. I actively worked with MED, Truespace, Blender, Lightwave, Vue, Cinema4D, ZBrush, Bodypaint, Reflection, Monzoom, an old version of 3d studio and smaller tools like Milkshape, Fragmotion and Ultimate Unwrap.
I tested XSI and some DAZ tools for a short time.

The sad story is: Most of them differ. You need to learn their UI every time. Some of them like ZBrush or Ultimate unwrap are really exotic. Blender is not that strange.
The interface of Blender even looks better than Maya's or XSI's. But all three of them allow to work fast and efficiently if you know them well.

I could get into Blender very fast (with the help of the Blender book). But I realized that my Lightwave is simply better, more powerful, more stable and faster and provides some more options for modeling and rendering. Though Blender is even better in terms of unwrapping and animation.

Most of the time I used books or video tutorials to learn new 3d tools. You have to master it and you cannot get into it in a few minutes / hours.

At the end it does not matter. If you can make a fantastic 3d-model, if you can texture it, paint details and do good lighting and rendering, then you will beat every spammer easily no matter what tool you have choosen. There are fantastic Blender artworks and there are fantastic pictures from all the other 3d tools.
And the best of them are mostly made with the help of ZBrush. And guess what: ZBrush has the most weird and exotic interface of all of them. But this does not hold the real artists back

I agree. of course a lot of it comes down to speed an efficiency but you can get the same results with med (on real time 3DGS models) as you can with any other program. its just a lot of extra work. I think sometime this week im going to start working on a project that uses only med, and gimp just to show that you can most of the time use even very basic software to get the job done.

Blender sucks!

it's a stupid program. but a ready monkey face? now it's really silly.