I grew up using Blender so I'm a little biased, but I don't think you'll find free tools with a better community. Maya and 3ds max are arguably better than Blen

I grew up using Blender so I'm a little biased, but I don't think you'll find free tools with a better community. Maya and 3ds max are arguably better than Blender at the very high levels, but if you're just getting started, Blender is a good place to begin. I made a 'quickstart' tutorial series aimed at people with zero 3d experience to get my friends up & running asap, you might get some value out of it: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWcWF5z1egpJ_8feBE94pY8aq3iaw-fdp&si=bRHhOLebCpgp9n3D https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWcWF5z1egpJ_8feBE94pY8aq... I tried a different approach than popular tutorials like the donut because I try to demystify some of the dry stuff up front that I think people get hung up on. The videos are all fairly short so that it will hopefully be an easily digestible way to really open the door for people on blender.