Blender is a great software for small to mid sized studios and individual creators. It can do so much as compared to other softwares without any extra cost. You can do everything at one place which makes it so efficient as well.
June 29, 2024

Blender is a great software for small to mid sized studios and individual creators. It can do so much as compared to other softwares without any extra cost. You can do everything at one place which makes it so efficient as well.

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Blender

There are many use cases blender have in my current company, our whole pipeline has been shifted to blender. As an advertising firm,we have different departments such as photography, videography and realtime for different products. The base of every department is blender. We receive cad files from client which we cleanup in blender, also sometimes we do modeling from scratch using references in it. After that in blender we do unwrapping and ao of products, further we also do lighting and shading using octane in it. We also use it to produce video animation for different clients. Overall it helps in every department and is solid pillar of our pipeline.

Pros

  • The tools for modeling and cad cleanup are very good in blender, also there are many good free and cheap plugins which makes the workflow faster and easier.
  • The compatibility with other tools like octane helping us do realistic lighting for products.
  • The use of plugins and its open source nature helps us to integrate with our in-house softwares and develop plugins for seamless use.

Cons

  • As a previous Maya user, I can say that blender is still far away when it comes to modeling and animation. Some tools are great here but some are not up to the mark, we need to install separate plugins for those.
  • Also this is a personal choice but I personally don't like the interface of blender. Sometimes I feel its not much user friendly but maybe thats because I used Maya previously.
  • Blender is open source which is its strength and weakness at the same time. I feel its very buggy, the bugs can be very annoying sometimes. Although they have a very helpful support and community.
  • Overall it has a very positive impact on our business. It helped us reduce down the cost of the software drastically.
  • It also helped us turned up our profits because since we don't have to invest in software, we can buy multiple plugins to make our workflow faster with minimal resources.
  • The training cost is much compared to other softwares and is much suited for our robust pipeline, we need in advertising .
The rating is based on the use of the software in our company and not on the basis of my personal preferences. From my personal preference I would have rated it a 9. It helped us our company in various places, like it helped us in cost cutting, also made our pipeline efficient and easier. It also helped us in improving the quality of the output.
Most obvious answer for why we have chosen blender over others is cost. The cost of other software is too high but because blender is free it helps to put our money and resources in the right places. It also helped us to get quality output without additional cost as octane is free for blender and its a great lighting and shading render engine.

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

Blender is a jack of all and master of none kind of software. It can do many things like modeling texturing lighting shading compositing, 2d animation but all are little half baked, we need plugins to make it the best. Its a very good option for small and indie studios but I think that it is still far away to become a industry standard, especially in vfx and film studios.

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