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

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Modo, you can get a 15 day demo at foundry’s site, and you can buy licenses on steam for modo indie. They even do quarterly rentals for the full version that are pretty reasonable.

Side FX Houdini has a free Apprentice version you can try out for an unlimited ammount of time and you can export objs with UV sets that will work in Unreal. For 199 a year you can get Houdini indie which gives you full access to Houdini’s fbx exporter as well as houdini engine for Unreal which is awesome.

Autodesk does monthly subscriptions on Max and Maya which aren’t cheap, but if you absolutely must work with their products, it’s a good way to go (less than 200 a month).

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.