Probably the least intuitive 3D Modeling and Video Editing software that has ever cursed the internet.

The developers were either left-handed, or deliberately trying to set new standards for GUI, Tools, and Hotkeys. If you've ever used Maya, Valve Hammer, Sparks (UnknownWorlds), Premiere, Vegas, or countless other software that came before Blender, you expect a certain standard, such as how to adjust the camera, manage polygons, and slicing videos. This should be easy. The tools should take no less than a few minutes to find after you launch Blender for the first time. The icons should be clear as day. The terminology should be the same everywhere. The developers of Blender, however, went down a different path. If any of the aforementioned software did x, then Blender had to do the complete opposite of that. Want to tilt the camera upwards? Then, tilt the camera downwards! Want to splice? Hee-hee, we hid it underneath a hotkey after you right click on the object and have toggled the thing in the GUI. Do they refer to the tools by names that has already been established everywhere else in the world? Nope, they've invented their own terminologies! "Slicing? What is slicing? I think you mean HoopDeePoop!" Even a menial task such as adjusting the GUI is a nightmare because they decided to go with their own special unicorn fart flavored way of doing it, relative only to all other software in the world. For every tiny action that you want to do, you need to spend countless hours googling how to. I mean, we learnt how to do all of this on our own with proper professional tools as 10 year olds back in the day, but in Blender we somehow need a master of science just to figure out how to add a video to the project. I'm surprised they didn't add a quiz on starting and closing the program, and turn the brand Blender into a anagram just to be special: LEBDERN.

I don't care if it's free. It was garbage when it was released, it was garbage 10 years ago, and it's still garbage today. Valve should never have allowed it on Steam.

Probably the least intuitive 3D Modeling and Video Editing software that has ever cursed the internet. The developers were either left-handed, or deliberately trying to set new standards for GUI, Tools, and Hotkeys. If you've ever used Maya, Valve Hammer, Sparks (UnknownWorlds), Premiere, Vegas, or countless other software that came before Blender, you expect a certain standard, such as how to adjust the camera, manage polygons, and slicing videos. This should be easy. The tools should take no less than a few minutes to find after you launch Blender for the first time. The icons should be clear as day. The terminology should be the same everywhere. The developers of Blender, however, went down a different path. If any of the aforementioned software did x, then Blender had to do the complete opposite of that. Want to tilt the camera upwards? Then, tilt the camera downwards! Want to splice? Hee-hee, we hid it underneath a hotkey after you right click on the object and have toggled the thing in the GUI. Do they refer to the tools by names that has already been established everywhere else in the world? Nope, they've invented their own terminologies! "Slicing? What is slicing? I think you mean HoopDeePoop!" Even a menial task such as adjusting the GUI is a nightmare because they decided to go with their own special unicorn fart flavored way of doing it, relative only to all other software in the world. For every tiny action that you want to do, you need to spend countless hours googling how to. I mean, we learnt how to do all of this on our own with proper professional tools as 10 year olds back in the day, but in Blender we somehow need a master of science just to figure out how to add a video to the project. I'm surprised they didn't add a quiz on starting and closing the program, and turn the brand Blender into a anagram just to be special: LEBDERN. I don't care if it's free. It was garbage when it was released, it was garbage 10 years ago, and it's still garbage today. Valve should never have allowed it on Steam.