I'm a client, not creator: Blender is a good place to start, free and mountains of information online.

Def start with Blender it's free and does pretty much everything those $1000 programs do.

Also recommend Blender. Though if I recall correctly, down the line depending on what you wanna do with it, there are other programs that do some things better. But not so much that'll make it VASTLY better than Blender.

So yeah, absolutely recommend Blender. Plus there's numerous videos out there to help learn how to do it.

I've been studying Blender in the last months and highly recommend it (since it's relatively easy to use and it's easy to have almost anything done, whether be a simple modelling or sculpting, or even animation). It's pretty easy to find tutorials of almost everything out there. The only tutorials I'm kinda struggling to find are NSFW related (genitals, breasts and such).

Never thought I'd see the day where "Blender" and "easy to use" were in the same sentence... my experience with Blender is that it's easier to learn how to fly a 747 airliner!

What 3d app makes Blender look *easy*??? 😄

blender. As someone who's used some of the expensive shit, i can tell you that while i had to basically re-learn when swapping to blender, once i caught the basic controls it was a breeze compared to most of 'em. Infact it offered some tricks to do things some of the others didn't have, which in many cases has saved me hours on some models.

It does have more of a learning curve than most, but due to the ease of access, there's tutorials galore for it.

Something thats not a specific program but id def recommend is giving all the GuerrillaCG videos a watch starting from the bottom up https://www.youtube.com/user/GuerrillaCG/videos. This will explain a lot of 3D concepts in an easy to understand way. Also when it comes to sculpting give that abandonware program Sculptris a try, its like the easiest program to use; sure it hits a technical limit and you will eventually may want to move to other programs but for getting started its amazing.

Sculptris was integrated into ZBrush. There's a free version, ZBrushCoreMini, for non-commercial use, in case you want to try out a still supported Sculptris.

Rather than picking an application first, I would recommend starting where you can get the best training/courses and support. The concepts you learn will be transferable to any 3D appliaction you end up deciding to use long term.

In my case I started with Blender, but found the training material lacklustre. Then I found excellent training material for Zbrush and Maya, so went with them instead.

Have a browse on somewhere like Udemy and find something you like, check out the reviews of the course and give it a go.

Blender is what I see practically everyone using, and for what it's worth it's the one I'm gonna try when I upgrade my computer soonish