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Sketchy · 16th July 2006, 07:16

Frankly, I feel more comfortable using Blender than Carrara when taken as 3d packages. By that I mean, I find modeling in Blender a bit smoother than in Carrara's Vertex Modeler. The only drawback is that it has no n-gon capability. But there are workarounds, which I still find sensible when compared to Carrara's awkward VM. Blender also has neat features you can find in commercial ones like Hex and others. Features such as edge extrusion comparable to Hexagon's. You can even extrude verts. Wings3d is good, but it lacks these features.

Of course, I could always use Hexagon for modeling tasks, which is easier, but it seems more sensible to learn how to do everything in Blender. Therefore, workflow familiarization should be a must in anticipation for more improved and powerful modeling features in the next releases. Learn about its limitations, accept them and get used to them as opposed to learning the workflow only when the needed features had arrived.

It also seems to me that Blender is developing faster than any other 3d package. Looks like the developers now know what to improve upon such as areas of weaknesses after working on Elephant's Dream.

Finally, nowadays using open source like Blender seems cooler than using commercial ones unless it's the big ones like Maya or 3ds max. You can find that it has a special place in CG forums while commercial ones like Carrara don't. Which seems to me that it's not just a free app, but really a special 3d app to be reckoned with.

In the last releases (speaking at an intermediate level point of view), they heavily concentrated on features that are lacking such as hair, for example, as well as animation and things related to it. After they are done with features that aren't normally part of the app, I expect the developers to go back to all features to strenghten them. They may one day decide to concentrate heavily on modeling and add more power to it, or improve hair, and so on. Much like Carrara which concentrated on materials and shading...

I'm still absolutely sure that C6 will rock. I may decide to continue with Carrara side by side with Blender if I have to. I may not be able to drop Carrara when that happens.

16th July 2006, 07:16	#10 (permalink)
Sketchy Box modeling Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 317	Frankly, I feel more comfortable using Blender than Carrara when taken as 3d packages. By that I mean, I find modeling in Blender a bit smoother than in Carrara's Vertex Modeler. The only drawback is that it has no n-gon capability. But there are workarounds, which I still find sensible when compared to Carrara's awkward VM. Blender also has neat features you can find in commercial ones like Hex and others. Features such as edge extrusion comparable to Hexagon's. You can even extrude verts. Wings3d is good, but it lacks these features. Of course, I could always use Hexagon for modeling tasks, which is easier, but it seems more sensible to learn how to do everything in Blender. Therefore, workflow familiarization should be a must in anticipation for more improved and powerful modeling features in the next releases. Learn about its limitations, accept them and get used to them as opposed to learning the workflow only when the needed features had arrived. It also seems to me that Blender is developing faster than any other 3d package. Looks like the developers now know what to improve upon such as areas of weaknesses after working on Elephant's Dream. Finally, nowadays using open source like Blender seems cooler than using commercial ones unless it's the big ones like Maya or 3ds max. You can find that it has a special place in CG forums while commercial ones like Carrara don't. Which seems to me that it's not just a free app, but really a special 3d app to be reckoned with. In the last releases (speaking at an intermediate level point of view), they heavily concentrated on features that are lacking such as hair, for example, as well as animation and things related to it. After they are done with features that aren't normally part of the app, I expect the developers to go back to all features to strenghten them. They may one day decide to concentrate heavily on modeling and add more power to it, or improve hair, and so on. Much like Carrara which concentrated on materials and shading... I'm still absolutely sure that C6 will rock. I may decide to continue with Carrara side by side with Blender if I have to. I may not be able to drop Carrara when that happens. Last edited by Sketchy; 16th July 2006 at 23:34.