Hi folks,
A few years ago I performed a survey for my PhD research. I asked 3D artists for their opinion on different 3D software products. This was a scientific research. Recently, I have published a comparison between those products in which Blender stands at a good place. For those of you who are interested, I have published some charts and scores to compare Learnability and Efficiency of 11 software products including Blender at my weblog:
http://www.drdacademy.com/?id=16
Regards