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BlenderSoftware

by Blender Foundation

Who uses, recommends or left Blender, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

5 people

Guillermo Rauch
Argentine software engineer, CEO and co-founder of Vercel and creator of Socket.io; blogs at rauchg.com.
liked

Open source training data Blender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.

2026-09-07·x.com ↗

Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette and co-creator of the Django web framework; writes about LLMs and data tools at simonwillison.net.
uses

Here's a Blender model of a Pluribus themed Fabergé egg I had GPT-6 Astra build - I generated the concept image using ChatGPT Images 2.5, then pasted the image into Codex and told Astra to turn that into a Blender file

2026-09-10·x.com ↗

Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette and co-creator of the Django web framework; writes about LLMs and data tools at simonwillison.net.
uses

New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender-coding-agents-macos

2026-09-05·x.com ↗

Devine Lu Linvega
Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits; creator of the Uxn virtual machine.
uses

nnn file manager. Spreadsheet Calculator. Krita digital painting. Blender 3D editor. surf browser. Cozy audiobook player.

Their Uses This interview, on low-power hardware and software used aboard a sailboat.

2019-08-07·usesthis.com ↗

Jenny Odell
Conceptual artist and writer, author of How to Do Nothing; teaches art at Stanford.
uses

I've played around in p5 a a bit, and lately I've been rendering some 3D blobs in Blender.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview, given while she was an artist in residence at Facebook.

2017-02-14·usesthis.com ↗

Who disliked it

Bennett Foddy
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
disliked

I would like to use 3D software in my toolchain, but I've tried just about everything and every piece of software is either too sadistic (Blender), too expensive (Maya) or too powerless (SketchUp).

His Uses This interview, a long and mostly exasperated tour of his hardware and software.

2012-08-10·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.