Blender - is there any easier to use alternative for simple content?

[SonKim]

@fruxo;514000

I was looking at houdini earlier, but wasn’t sold. Sounded like it did some things well but others not so much. I might give it another look. Modo is one that I had missed completely. Seems to be $US60/6months. I’ll try and investigate this one. What are the benefits compared to Blender? More user friendly I assume? Does it give me a good platform to stand on if I want to continue on with more in depth learning later on or is it quirky?

$200/month is WAY more than I would consider spending since I would be using it very rarely and not making any money from it.

Modo indie is current version 901, and Modo 10 indie is coming in 1-2 months from now, so if i were you just sub for a 1-3 months then if you like it, you can buy Modo indie 10 for 299 USD(no need for subscription, assuming the price doesn’t go up), Modo 10 is more suited for game development:

http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=3&t=121498

Modo is pretty easy to used compare to blender(I totally understand how you feel about it’s UX/UI). Modo is like a modern version of Lightwave but even coming from 3DSMax you should be able to learn it easy enough. No one can truly say which software is best , different people different preference to UI, you need to take it for a spin by modeling something.