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Well I know I want to get the student version of LightWave as soon as I get some money. As for now I've been into the freeware modeling program "wings3d". Now I need somebody to explain to me basically what is good about different modeling programs? I'm still learning about greating textures... but as of now I've been modeling household items and creatures in wings3D to improve my skills. Such as, recently I completed a chessboard and the pieces from scratch in wings... it was tough, but a fun project. I'm heading to college next year to study Visual Effects and Motion Graphics at art school... but I really want to master the digital modeling aspect of art. Can anybody help me out here and name some good ways to model that will forshadow skills I will need in Maya/3Dstudio/Lightwave?