I had tried Blender way back in the 90's, I was just getting started in Computer Animation. All I can say is Wow, what progress. What made me take another look was I saw the Movie made by Blender called, the Sintel's Third Open Movie, and was very impressed that Blender had progressed that much. Not to slight the Artist that made that movie at All. They did an awlsome job. I saw some things that weren't as good as other parts, but not objectionable at all. Especially when I found out the time crunch where they had to make choices of just a little of quality loss, or speed. That was over all Pretty much A Top notch production.

I had downloaded it to try it out just about 10 minutes ago, So I have to learn the tools and all the new advances. I seen people bragging all the things you could do with Blender, but the old interface and the way you worked with the tools didn't lend itself the way I would go about things. (But I was also just learning at that time so everything was different then)

I am hopping that I can start doing my movies for the most part in blender. I have a lot of Poser, and Daz figures, that I would like to be able to import into Blender. This is going to take a while, as I'm in the Process of writing my next movie. But all the things you can do in Blender now is pretty much everything I need.

All I can say is Great Work Guys and Girls.