Hi guys. I have been using blender for a long time now, and thought I should post it here. It is 100% free, and made for both windows and mac. The interface is not the easyist, but after a while you will get used to it.

Link: blender.org

-Aaron

I thought I would just say that blender is a great program, and also bump this thread up again so people have a chance to visit the site and get a feel for it themselves...aswell as the program itself, I want to link to the first 'open source' developed film made primarily in Blender, as a taste of what is possible.

http://orange.blender.org/

Enjoy, after the long download.

I've used blender for awhile now as well and it's definitely a good alternative to some of the much more expensive 3d modeling software suites out there. It's also in open-source which means anyone can develop and add features to it making it come out with pretty frequent updates that include up to date tools and bug fixes and stuff. I agree with you guys in the sense that it was a little hard to use at first but there are plenty of resources on the net that go along with it, I've even seen some video tutorials of some pro 3d artists using it (sorry don't remember the sites though but I'm sure they're still out there). All in all, Blender is definitely something to check out.

blender is definately a great free software to use. also it is a bit difficult at first but there are plenty of sites offering tutorials for it..


One other thing there was no need to repost about blender here., since there are already about 4 differnt posts in this sectionon blender, use the search tool but i may be wrong