True +1. I've had the displeasure of working with 3DSMax engineers developing a custom authoring tool for Sony. And while the guys were really cool and fun, it was a fucking mess and a complete waste of 10's of thousands of dollars on something that didn't even work a little bit.
Lack of clarity on my part. I consider myself a hobbyist, because I do it all on my own time. How I want. When I want, etc. When I sell my first copy, I'll be a published hobbyist. I've been fooling around with 3D going on a decade and a half. (I can get all nostalgic about my doom modding days, when seeing your work in…
Actually, that's not entirely true. Blender is supported and maintained by the Blender Foundation, which is essentially a non-profit organization that raises money in order to keep supporting the development of Blender. If they hired away the current Blender developers, the Blender Foundation would just hire new ones to…