Blender Basics for Game Characters - Game Character Creation with Blender and Unity - page 26

Working with Editor Arrangement and Types
Blender has a reputation for being difficult to learn. Until recently this had a kernel of
truth behind it. Blender used to look like a whole lot of nothing when compared with
other 3D programs that showed all their functions in the interface (Figure 2.3).

Figure 2.3
Blender 2.49b
screen compared
to 3D Studio Max
screen

The New Blender Experience
When the initiative to overhaul Blender starting with the 2.5 series was undertaken, the
developers gave special attention to making Blender faster and improving many of its sys-
tems, as well as making the interface more user friendly. This has been especially helpful
to those coming to Blender after working in another 3D environment.