I Currently work as a lighting TD for a VFX company I have experience in lighitng and rendering in Katana. I started out using Blender and it's what got me into computer graphics. I still use it today for my own work. I build tools for RV, Katana and sometimes Nuke in python and lua. I use and love blender for all of my at home projects and have built a few tools to get blender runnning in my home pipeline. I recently used it to make a pitch episode for a kids tv show.