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What's a good free low end 3d software to start out with?

I'm an artist and would like to try 3d modeling the legal way and don't want to download a high end program illegally because I'd also like to include any good work I do into a portfolio. Also my computer's specs can't handle a high end program anyway. I have a 1.46 GHz Celeron and 446 MB of ram and an ATI radeon express 200m video card.

Public Comments

1. type blender into google
2. http://www.blender.org/ or any of these: http://www.3dcgi.com/learn/free/free-3d.htm
3. These are all free: Daz Studio: http://www.daz3d.com/i/software/studio Maya Personal Learning Edition: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7639525 Vue 6 Personal Learning Edition: http://www.e-onsoftware.com/try/vue_6_ple/ Blender: http://www.blender.org/ Wings 3D: http://www.wings3d.com/ You can also get the full caligari trueSpace7.6 for free plus all models and content , since its taken over by microsoft but hurry this offer will not last: http://www.caligari.com/ Apart from Vue & Maya which takes lots of resources I think the rest will be fine to run on your PC spec
4. Maya Personal Learning Edition 8.5. Although this is really for learning, as Maya has put on watermarks on digitally rendered images, and disabled a few features but it's really good. They distribute it for free. There's the link. You can hit the print screen button if you want images of your rendered work. There's an extensive tutorial provided for this. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7639525