Hi, Well. You know... I get this quite a lot! Once a while forwarding compliments is welcome I guess :)
-Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands Begin forwarded message: > From: Arnold > Subject: Applause > Date: 19 March, 2012 3:16:13 CET > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Dear Blender Team, > > This new interface is far superior, imho, than the older versions (pre 2.5x). > I used Blender briefly several years ago and it was clunky to use. Its > performance even on a fairly powerful PC was dismal, as well. It was not > exactly what a serious 3D creator would use for production work. It had > potential, though, and I was impressed with the many features even though > some were not fully implemented or were buggy. > > What you have here may arouse a great bit of jealousy from companies charging > hundreds of dollars for an equivalent product. > That's because this is incredibly good. The advent of the "hair" and "cloth", > the feature-rich particle system, and the seemingly unlimited environment > manipulation give any artist, game developer, etc. a dream development > platform. Blender is now a robust product and, as you may have noticed, there > has been a surge in Blender-created videos at the various video sites. Some > of those videos were only possible on very expensive computers and expensive > proprietary systems not many years ago. > > While one could brag on just the features ("Cycles" was a million dollar > idea), it is the new interface that will draw newbies who were intimidated by > the older interface. It is > still a daunting platform to learn because it has so many features but even a > complete novice, following the new and excellent intro tutorials, can be > doing the basics in a matter of hours now. > > Congratulations on a great software package. I do not know if there was a > team change since the last time I used Blender or not but whoever makes up > the current team is doing one fantastic job. > > Sincerely, > > Arnold Townsend > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
