Is illusionmage.com Safe?

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If you want to pay $47 for "modified" free software then good for you. If you want the same software for free, completely legally, simply and honestly do what millions of others have and download it from the source. ***** Blender allows for multiple rendering engines, like Cycles, POVRay and LuxRender all of which are free there are 1,000's of hours of free Blender tutorials on youtube and dozens of other sites, there are 1,000's of users who support Blender on dozens of forums. You can ask for your money back from IllustionMage but the question is; will you actually get it returned to you. *****

I checked directly with the vendro and here is their answer. I therefore think this is legit, if all the work done was there to make the product easier to use, it is fine to ask for money in return. Here it is: Message: How come there are many notes on the net stating that you have repackaged the open source program Blender ? Date: ***** 21:51:33 Name: Olsen Message: Marcel, Please check the information below to answer your question: IllusionMage is based on the Blender source code but it has been modified to: - Produce faster rendering and loading times - Integrate tons of video tutorials that makes it simpler to use - Easy Usage via a rehaul of the interface - We also plan to add new features like custom models and structures which will only be available to our existing members Whats more, we've included hundreds of pages of guides, step by step video training and one-on-one support to use our animation software. If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us. Olsen Customer Support *****

The website attempts to sell a copy of Blender to its visitors. Blender is a free, open-source 3D graphics application that can be downloaded for free from Blender.org. The website is also using copyrighted content which were copied from various CG websites. More information of this scam can be found at: *****

Reselling / rebranding of copyrighted material and violation of terms of GPL licensing of the free Blender software. Please do not purchase from this or any other site and go directly to ***** for the official free releases of this software, tutorials etc.

its blender as the software that is referenced - if you read the page then you will find it noticed short below the final signature of some CEO. thats not the point they charge you 47 USD - they are providing 6 hours of video tutorials - thats probably a true value uniquely available from that company. if someone is able to show that their vids are not worth the money then thats probably worth a note here on WOT.

They are selling the free and Open source software : Blender They want make money using the sweat of a startling community without paying back any dime for the blender foundation. Please don't be fooled and pay for something that you can get for free! Save you money and donate some, if you like, for the guys who really deserves it!