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to get Blender. Blender is an absolutely free 3D program (no trial gimmick).

There's really good tutorials on how to use Blender that are super easy to follow at:

http://www.blendermind.50megs.com/tutorials.html

Blender has a 20,000 + member community that will answer your questions about learning 3D and all the other stuff along with tons of tutorials from basic to advanced. The community page is at (check out the forum):

The Blender community

One more thing, my work isn't that great compared to many others. Check out what other people have made at the blender site or click on the orange logo to the left to see an animation someone made with blender.

A note to the unbelievers: * Sure, 3DMax and Lightwave are better, but Blender is free. Blender wins at the quality/cost ratio and doesn't need neato-looking buttons to do the same job. * If you use Max or Lightwave and complain about Blender, go to your pathetic warez site to see if you can download an update from them every 2-6 weeks! If you're lucky.  (95% of the people who use the expensive programs never even bought the program, but have downloaded them off of the warez sites).