Blender

[Georgefox]

blender is a great program like it doesnt come close to maya or max but i use it often there used to be a site called Blendergalactica but its went offline

[Athene]

Cool.

I've got to try out some of these programs.

[Ramses]

BLender is a great program. but it tends to confuse folks at first. theres little you can do with 3dmax and others that you cant do with Blender. at least as far as I know of.

this is one of the best links I have found to learning to use blender. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual

they also have some really good tutorials. anyway best of luck to those who decide to grab blender and start modeling.

[gmd3d]

Blender is getting a lot of good press among the cgi community esp as it a free program where you cannot go wrong there,

there are a lot of BSG models at Sci-fi meshes all low poly and will be quick for rendering IN 3DS format . but not for close up shots

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/d...et_jzh_kXE.jpg

[Ramses]

blender is great. thats all I used these days. so far I can import/export every major format. hope you guys have fun using it too.