I want to find some suitable tools for starting out in 3D. Here's what
I'm looking for:

1) I want to create character models that I can more or less pose as
puppets in some fashion within a given scene. (The kinds of characters I
have in mind are *not* realistic, but fairly cartoonish. Unfortunately,
the characters that float around in my head tend not to be composed of
nice, neat spheres, cylinders, etc.)

2) Reasonably straightforward. Good documentation is a must. If I can
read a manual and understand the features of the software I'm using, I
can probably figure out how to do what I want to do. I've played around
with the Blender, and while I respect its capabilities, I find that the
interface makes me gunshy of it, even after reading the Blender manual
(which unfortunately doesn't seem to explain Blender all that well).

3) I have no problem with creating or editing text files *IF* that is
more straightforward than a graphical approach. I highly emphasize the
'IF', though.


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