I know Anim8or has a couple of good tutorials on its site; there is the egg plant tutorial and the hand tutorial, plus an HTML manual. I thought it was pretty criptic at first too, but reading helped. As far as Blender goes, that is probably the most complex modeler you could pick of those discussed here. There are books (literally) written on it and you need them to make much progress. I don't much appreciate a screen full of icons with dozens of choices either and gave up on Blender almost immediately. That is why I settled on Nendo and Wings (they work essentially the same, learn one, you know the other). Here things are presented in Menus with words. File -> New. That seems pretty intuitive to me. Right click in the workspace and you get a context sensitive menu. Got an empty workspace? Right click and you get a list of primitives to choose from. Click on one and presto, there it is. There are only 10 icons in the whole program, and you don't have to use any of them, as all functions are available via the menus. And again, there is an on-line manual and some mini tutorials at the site. It does take some effort to learn a program, even Poser. jon

 
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