Blender

[blurymind]

i was surprised to see that we dont have blender in our repo.

Just when i wanted to try and learn to 3d 

[The Headacher]

blurymind, blender is real easy to install, they have a tarball that contains a built & ready to go blender:
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.44/blender-2.44-linux-glibc232-py24-i386.tar.bz2

Just untar it to your homefolder or something, make a shortcut on your desktop and you're ready to go.

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I'm not sure what you mean with "I just wanted to learn 3d", but it's got sort of a weird interface if you're used to Autodesk Autocad and Autodesk Inventor like me. The other way around is probably true as well.
Expect a steep learning curve, there's sooooo many options, I doubt there's anyone who knows what they all do. It's jolly good fun to play with though , even if you never make more than 50 frames of animation.
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[rbistolfi]

I have blender up and going on my vector box, just untaring the binary from blender.org. I am learnig to use it. Like Headeacher I am used to Autodesk apps and is not easy. There are great tutorials, like <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro>"blender from noob to pro"[/url]. But the app is geting realy great since the Orange Project. If you didnt yet, check the new tools since v. 2.43, I think Blender will be the best 3d app in the market one day, even better than the discreet tools.

PS: There is another "open movie project" going, like "Elephants dreams", called "Plumiferos", developed in Buenos Aires, have you seen it? Looks great and I think can give a big push to the gnu project. An entire movie developed with open source soft! Could be great if the movie have success.

[blurymind]

thank you guys,for the info and the tasty link.

Also,what 3d app do you think is best for a newbye,with an easy learning curve?

Is cad or 3d max a better choice?

[rbistolfi]

I think cad is more user friendly, but keep in mind 3dmax have a lot more advanced features in rendering and textures, and it shares a few conventions with other 3d apps, and with the big brothers like "Inferno".There is a "new" open source app made in java called moonligth 3d, I didnt give it a try yet, and there is couple really easy but very simples, like swift 3d. It is nice to easily animate and have a flash exporter, and can import cad and 3ds. Keep in mind there is no really easy tool yet, I am playn with this since two years and still a noob, but may be I am just slow to learn  Is true blender have a hard interface, but once you get it is great, really easy to find the tool you are looking for.
good luck, and keep us noticed about how it goes!