Keep going on blender, I absolutely HATED it at first after using everything from Max(altho. last time i used max was V5!) to truespace, hexagon and many lower end apps.
I ended up prefering the blender interface/modeller over all others ive used. My budget allows me to pay for software, i still use blender :)
What i reccomend is for animation and b3d though, is use blender to make your skins and animate them in fragmotion(its only 20 bucks from www.fragmosoft.com ) as i think blenders x export is for a later directx and doesnt work with b3d.
I ended up prefering the blender interface/modeller over all others ive used. My budget allows me to pay for software, i still use blender :)
What i reccomend is for animation and b3d though, is use blender to make your skins and animate them in fragmotion(its only 20 bucks from www.fragmosoft.com ) as i think blenders x export is for a later directx and doesnt work with b3d.