Blender really is a gem, for beginners there really is little reason to learn anything else, fully featured, free and runs off a USB or shared drive, can run on pretty old hardware. For examples of what teenagers in the UK are making with Blender see these:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42113898
https://younganimator.uk/submissions/16f0edf9-4fff-43d5-b82b...
https://younganimator.uk/submissions/96059d6c-796e-485f-9582...
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