Wings is certainly the right price, lots of excellent models have come out of that program.

Blender is free also, though the learning curve a bit steeper.

AC3D is priced nicely, turns out some decent product too.

All of these have decent support & documentation too.

From there you can go to Cinema 4D, Maya, etc. But the pricing creeps up.

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ICM

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