So I'm pretty handy with Photoshop CS5, and use vector-based shapes for drawings...oooohhh...extensively. Manipulation of vectors, editing points and curves within vectors, etc.
Lots of time in that. Lots and lots and lots of time. VERY good at it.
So I wanted to try my hand at making a scene with 3d objects, and picked up Blender (the $0 cost was quite a compelling argument), but...ooof. I can hardly make heads or tails of that application! The only things I've been able to do are basically a result of step-by-step walking through various tutorials, but then when I come back later I cannot remember how to do any of as the interface is just so incredibly unintuitive.
Is there anything better out there for rendering 3d scenes? Specifically, for someone to whom complex vector work in Photoshop is like a second language? (I'm not actually interested at all in animating anything - it's still just fixed scenes I'd be rendering, but I'd really like to start doing more work in 3d)
** FWIW, I did do 2 years with AutoCAD back in high school, but I remember literally nothing about that outside of being top of my class at it. 20 years is a very, very long time ago to retain any kind of software skills, and in any case I don't think much would apply to what I'm looking for now.
Lots of time in that. Lots and lots and lots of time. VERY good at it.
So I wanted to try my hand at making a scene with 3d objects, and picked up Blender (the $0 cost was quite a compelling argument), but...ooof. I can hardly make heads or tails of that application! The only things I've been able to do are basically a result of step-by-step walking through various tutorials, but then when I come back later I cannot remember how to do any of as the interface is just so incredibly unintuitive.
Is there anything better out there for rendering 3d scenes? Specifically, for someone to whom complex vector work in Photoshop is like a second language? (I'm not actually interested at all in animating anything - it's still just fixed scenes I'd be rendering, but I'd really like to start doing more work in 3d)
** FWIW, I did do 2 years with AutoCAD back in high school, but I remember literally nothing about that outside of being top of my class at it. 20 years is a very, very long time ago to retain any kind of software skills, and in any case I don't think much would apply to what I'm looking for now.