When I first opened Blender 2.48 I think it was it was totally alien to me and never could figure it out. I learned basic modeling skills on Hexagon and really wanted to learn how to model for Poser and Hexagon seemed to way to go and was not a major investment for a hobbyist. I have heard that Wings3d was a decent modeler but it never clicked for me. When Blender was redesigned with 2.5 it made sense for me maybe just the way my brain ticks lol. I agree Blender has its own way of doing things and yes I believe there still many improvements that can and need to be made but from the perspective of a hobbyist it is free and if I need to spend a little extra time learning how it works to accomplish my goals well I do not consider that a burden. The fact that I had to learn keyboard short cuts and such to speed up my workflow has actually helped in other areas and other software where I hardly ever used their shortcut keys (yeah bad techy always used point and click shame on me:) now I do so Blender's UI might not be perfect but it is still a very worthy tool for any artist to invest the time and effort into learning. 

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