Blender 3D app suite could touch down on tablets, starting with iPad

The open source Blender 3D editing suite may be adapted to run on Apple's iPad and other tablets, despite concern from one contributor that the team is already stretched with "thousands of bugs languishing in the tracker." Head of product Dalai Felinto said that Blender needs to run on tablets. Reasons include that they are …

[IGotOut]

I doubt.....

....it will go onto Android, if it does it'll be limited to the likes of the Galaxy tabs.

Most graphics (and music) programs stick to Apple as developing for Android for serious A/V programs is a bit of a hellscape, especially for support.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Making the keyboard optional?

Blender has literally hundreds of keyboard shortcuts. How the hell are they going to implement that?

The pace of development is blinding these days. There is no way anyone can keep up with it. Personally, I wish they would slow down and concentrate on fixing bugs for 6 months or so.

My opiniated view, as a daily Blender user, is that software of this scope and complexity should not be shoehorned into a tablet. It's bad enough on a laptop that doesn't have enough keys for it to work properly.

[Blackjack]

They most likely won't, they are going to have to design an graphical interface that works with tablets.

[CountCadaver]

less a steep learning curve....

And more a several thousand foot high vertical ascent, the kind of software that REALLY could do with looking at ways to make it more accessible for new users, as currently it's not at all intuitive and it feels like no one has looked at it from the perspective of someone using it for the first time.

Something several of my uni lecturers would have taken strong issue with