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by conflux0 5914 days ago
I think this is one of those moments where it would be considered wrong to disagree, but everyone eventually will just disregard it due to impracticality.
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It might work in a place like New York City. One of the Android groups here is doing some OpenGL stuff. We're trying Blender, but most of us are a little challenged.

http://www.nycjava.net/JSPWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JavaMobileStudy...

As a Blender user myself I can say that it is very challenging to get started, but once you learn all the keyboard shortcuts things become very fast and easy to use. I feel that Blender gives me more control, even though learning it was rather hard.
The same is true for many other tools like Mutt, Slrn, Emacs and Vim. It takes some time to get a feeling for them, but it's always worth the initial learning effort!
It's not that hard to feel challenged when it comes to Blender. If you can afford it, check out Silo3D - probably the most intuitive 3D tool I've ever used; it doesn't support animation yet, though.