I model and animate in Blender.
Unfortuantely it doesn't have any succesful exporters to b3d. Yet. You can export to md2, but there are problems with the normals.
Check out the video tutorials at http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Video_Tutorials.396.0.html . They are very helpful in getting newbies started. The learning curve is indeed high, but it's definately worth it.
Unfortuantely it doesn't have any succesful exporters to b3d. Yet. You can export to md2, but there are problems with the normals.
Check out the video tutorials at http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Video_Tutorials.396.0.html . They are very helpful in getting newbies started. The learning curve is indeed high, but it's definately worth it.