I shall look up and bookmark Blender Artist!

I can't get a grasp on Wings....the bounding box thing throws me waaaay off track. It was the same for Houdini, I love the way Houdini looks when you open it up - like there's all sorts of cool things that you can do with but having to worry about a bounding box around an object, as well as the object itself, really confuses me.

In this respect Blender is actually easier to figure out than Wings or Houdini because it tends to be in more universal format with Studio Max (which I'm assuming most people started learning in).

Wings and Houdini feel as if they are geared more towards advanced enthusiasts looking for something new.