"Flow" won an Academy Award for best animation film last night. Beating out other great studio efforts, expensive big big studio films.
In accepting the award, the makers thanked Blender. Blender is the software the film was created on.
Blender is free. Blender is another free and open software project.
You can use it. Make a film, win an Oscar. They did. You don't even have to thank Blender, but it sure was nice to hear it on the Oscars Stage, winning.
Artists should know Blender is NOT A TOY, the constantly improving Blender is top professional grade software.
One neat thing about Blender being free, is you can give it to a young person to begin exploring, and they can grow up learning, become proficient. There are ecosystems of learning for Blender.
Its POWERFUL, and useful for designing building games, 2D art, animated videos.
go see http://blender.org