Blender is amazing. It can do so many things. If you want to try it out, I highly recommend "Blender Guru" on youtube. The "donut tutorial" is a great overview that orients you to where all of the most important functions are.
Took me a ~3 evenings of 3 hours each (included some playful fiddling outside the scope of just completing the tutorial) and now I feel like I can generally google for answers to questions and get by in blender.
Also 3.0 featured a roughly 8x speed increase in rendering! It's insanely cool.
I started on my Blender journey just a few weeks ago and I've been delighted by it so far. Blender is really a creator's dream come true.
Blender Guru and CG Geek are my favorite Youtube channels for Blender tutorials and they both make it easy to get started with Blender with short and practical tutorials.
While I can only create some basic shapes so far, I'm really impressed by what is possible based on the tutorials I've seen. I'm looking forward to getting into rigging and animation soon and start with some low-poly and eventually more higher-resolution models and animations.
"Doing the donut" has become the initiation for even serious CAD engineers. Really good tutorial. Even interesting for software devs that want to dabble in 3d rendering as the knowledge from the design pipeline really helps in general understanding of the problem space.
I'll go through a tutorial, and start picking up stuff. Then life happens, I spend some time away. Now I want to pick it up again... and I have to start from scratch.
Took me a ~3 evenings of 3 hours each (included some playful fiddling outside the scope of just completing the tutorial) and now I feel like I can generally google for answers to questions and get by in blender.
Also 3.0 featured a roughly 8x speed increase in rendering! It's insanely cool.