Rating and comments for Blender

Steep learning curve but well worth it. Check out Elephants Dream the first Open Movie released under Creative Commons.

Great application ith integrated fluid simulation,
particles, softbodies,..

Best software ever created ever!

The best free 3D application ever created!

My first an my favorite in 3d arts and crafts :)

you can do the same as with the commercial 3d packages! I promise!

Love it!

This software is awesome. I couldn't believe the enormous amount of features it includes. After the hard first days of learning the interface I was totally amazed that I could create things that I could only dream of before. Wonderful piece of software. And it costs you not one cent!

Quite as powerful as Maya or 3DS Max but an unintuitive interface. It is this GUI that has kept Blender out of the commercial project workflow.

Awesome 3d program, rivals the big expensive packages.

Why isn't there an alternative GUI plugin for Blender? Someone spent the time to make a Pocket PC port, but not something really useful. Doing 3D animation on a PDA? Come on!

Awesome software. This one got me into Open source.
Your only limitation is you imagination!

The Best and easyest GUI in 3D application ever created

Great program. Fast modeling using mouse and keyboard combination. Lots of tutorials on the internet, great community. Active developers and a new Peach movie in the works.

It's OK, but my head started to hurt when I first started it.

Its very good, but could really benefit for a more easy/ pratical gui - like maya or cinema 4d

Great software!! Definitely stick to the stable versions to learn. Takes a bit of patients to get passed the user interface, but once you get the hang of it you realized how brilliant the user interface is.

The upcoming 2.50 release will greatly overhaul the interface, for those who find Blender unwieldy.

Steep learning curve, but once you get used to it this software is legendary!

By now it's 2.60 and 2.61 is comming soon... This should be updated.

Either way, it's an amazing program with fast paced updatig and superb support.

A brilliant piece of open source software, full to the brim with
awesome features, such as...
A realistic render engine (Cycles)- which can render using GPU
Cuda, and in real time! A wide toolset of modifiers, including soft
body, and fluid simulation etc. UV unwrapping, texturing utilities....
the possibilities are endless. If you have the skills and enough
time, you can produce results as good as actual pixar/
dreamworks films! And if you don't believe me, check the open
source short film, Sintel. (Take note I am describing Blender
2.61) To be honest, Blender is one hard program to tackle, but
the struggle will result in something very special. Not to mention
the flourishing community that stand aside, which you can easily
become a part of. So if you're feeling stuck, check for a tutorial!
And if you don't succed at first, don't give up, because you're
missing out on a hell of a lot if you do!
I VERY HIGHLY recommend that you try this out if you're
interested in 3D animation/modeling/gaming...
So, good luck!