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I know I should learn Blender one of those days, but I keep putting it off. I had a look at it a long time ago and even ordered the manual on Amazon. But years and years went by and the manual never happened. Maybe things are better now instruction-wise.

It''s fairly easy to use. When I first tryed blender the interface was scary as hell ( So many buttons ) Which turned me off to it until I finally put some effort into learning it a little. I felt the same way about wings 3d when I first used it but now I think you probably couldn't find an easier to learn modeller than wings3d. There's a few good video tutorials on the main Blender page. In particular the one on the interface helped me alot. Theres also a uv mapping tutorial by greybeard which is a little outdated but quite good and still useful to get the basics down. Im still a noob at uvmapping myself but from what I hear on various forums blenders uvmapping is the envy of the industy. If you can find the time give it a try. The sculpt mode is awesome. It's no z-brush but it's really simple and fun :)