3D Design

Let me start of by apologizing if this is the wrong forum to post my question in.

 Recently I've been very interested in doing 3D Design, but I wouldn't have a clue where I should start. Since there are so many tools out there and I'm only a novice, I was just wondering if any of you guys know a good 3D design tool that is beginner friendly and easy to learn ?

 Thanks in advance,
                           Rob

Let me start of by apologizing if this is the wrong forum to post my question in.

Recently I've been very interested in doing 3D Design, but I wouldn't have a clue where I should start. Since there are so many tools out there and I'm only a novice, I was just wondering if any of you guys know a good 3D design tool that is beginner friendly and easy to learn ?

Thanks in advance,
Rob

rob919

Have a go at using Maya as well as read up on some tutorials 

When you say "3D Design", I'm automatically assuming you're talking about 3D modelling and texturing, so sorry if I'm wrong. Good, professional tools worth learning are, as a rule, both expensive and rather complex. Nevertheless, there's a ton of tutorials for all of them.

Currently, a lot of people use Maya and / or 3D Studio Max, which you can both find at Autodesk.com's website. As for sources from which to learn, if you prefer the methodical, step-by-step way of learning, go for books on Amazon.com. For a beginner, virtually any one of them should have a load of information, so those 20-odd bucks will be well spent. On the flip side, if you prefer learning some tricks and figuring the rest out, there are tutorial sites on the net, such as, for example, Tutorialized.com.

Do note that I'm talking here about professional tools, that are pretty much standard in the industry, and not about the myriad of more-or-less free alternatives. Many of those are good tools as well, but come nowhere near the feature list that 3D Studio Max and Maya have.

When you say "3D Design", I'm automatically assuming you're talking about 3D modelling and texturing,

johnnyb47

That's exactually what I mean't :D. Thanks for the reply guys and ill have to look into Maya as I looked at 3D Studio Max and I dont think I will be able to start of with such a professional tool.

Thanks again. 

I use 3dS Max over Maya, get the 3DS Max Bible and some other books on character animation and just start tinkering around.

But if those two are too professional for you try Lightwave.
acidBURN1942

 I just started using 3DS Max about a month, awesome program but it's got an extremely large learning curve. Just wanted to put here, if you do decide to go with 3DS Max you'd be wellto buy 3DS Max Fundamentals training from 3dbuzz.com. It's only 99$ now, it's about 110 hours long. I'm actually only about a third of the way through the training, but what I've seen so far is just excellent.