Any creative types on here use Blender? I'm sure after 20 years of using 3DS Max that jumping ship isn't the best idea, but I'm drawn to it and the community.

All I've managed to model tonight is this...thing... so I doubt I'll be making the jump quite yet.

I did a half hour tutorial (Which literally took three hours because of kids) and got this far. So weird spending so long doing something I could knock up in 3 minutes in 3DS Max but I'll get there.

I haven't gotten much further but I vaguely know how to texture now. Anyway, I must get out and enjoy the sun.

This is shonky as hell, but I modeled/textured it by myself in five minutes without a tutorial so I'm starting to feel braver.

Next step - I need to find out how to bump map/specular. Even before I begin working out animation etc. I can't be dealing with that plastic shine.