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I prefer Cinema4D UI over Blender. It does all the things you listed and then some.

Blender UI is great, but Cinema4D UI is arguably better. I've used both for 10 years.

I think most engineers and designers forget that they're just tools. Vim or emacs? PyCharm. Whatever works for you. Stop letting tools define your craftsmanship. This comment reminds me of pixel peeping that most enthusiast photographers do...comparing MTF curves for days. How about going out and taking pictures, learning composition and narrative, story telling and photographic experimentation? But they're too enslaved to their tools.

I guess that too can be a hobby?

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You may be right but keep in mind that there are a lot of talented people that cant afford paying for software such as Cinema4D and that's the beauty of Blender you have access to 3D software with good amount of possibilities without paying anything and the community is pretty huge and getting a momentum

Yep, I agree - Blender is a great tool and not wanting to take away anything from it.

But I found this horn-tooting about Blender and saying that its superior to every 3D software out there is a stretch if not flatout wrong.

Ever used Houdini? Yeah, it's not totally free but it's free for non-commercial use. It will blow your mind what it can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIcUW9QFMLE

The Houdini UI is nothing short of absolute genius.

I don't see Blender ever competing with Houdini. Like...ever. Because, it is fundamentally a different take on 3D content. It does the same thing at the end (3D content), but the way it does it is different (procedural). Better IMHO, but I could be biased.

Does that mean Blender has no place in the sofware ecosystem? No. Can we me a bit more pragmatic, stop horn-tooting and objectively look at the 3D software landscape as a whole? Yes.

Houdini is nice peace of 3D software they are going for a lot of years now leading to 90s good that they added some affordable licensing for indie artists recent years but again for starter 3d artist Blender is best choice after that its up to the person what direction he/she will choose.

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