If this should be in the blender forums just move it for me (it's empty and scares me...)
So there's a new version of the free/open source 3d program called Blender 3d...
you can find the information on the new version at this
link.
With every version release of this program, they make it that much more powerful and capable of handling most of the same things that the expensive programs like maya, 3ds max, etc can handle...but for free
anyways, you can download it
here