The other day i stumbled upon Blender 2.5, an update to blender that's been in the works since 2007, according to the release logs. I was so impressed by the much improved UI that i downloaded and read the entire pdf on it's design (granted, it's only a few pages). I can honestly say it is the most polished looking 3D program i have seen to date, with a wonderful workflow.
However, along with all the wondrous improvements, there are a few things that could still be improved. First of all, a library would be extremely useful for those of us who don't want to make every single model ourselves. There should be enough CC licensed work from the various blender movies to make at least a sizable library, and ideally you would allow people to submit their own creations quickly and easily... one of the best implementations of this i have seen is in sketchup, where you can browse and search a huge online repository. Materials should also have a repository, along with a moderated repository for scripts that do certain types of things (e.g. a script that generates a grass field, complete with flowers, based on supplied parameters).
One more thing it could use is a "quick start guide" or similar, although it needs it significantly less in 2.5.
Well, it's pretty darn awesome, but not quite perfect yet. Also crashes quite a bit on windows still, but that's not a problem for me most of the time ;).
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