If you want the best free one, that is definitely blender. Everyone here seems to have pirated C4D, but my advice is don't pirate :<

You pretty much can't pirate it, unless you a torrent.

can any1 help me with something? look at the first post on page 2. how do you make a object like that? i mean the handle on the sword. on blender. im a begginner but im interested on learning to get better. xD

there's a good sword tutorial on youtube, by super3boy. just search it. i'll try and find a link.

EDIT: here ya go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whMozCIJGOw

I know his tutorials. Either he's somewhat of a noob or doesn't try very hard when doing tutorials. I mean, a couple of intersecting beveled cubes do not make a good sword hilt.

Yeah, pertty basic stuff, but if you're a beginner and need some tutorials to get you started, then super3boy's are perfect. they're what started me off. then i started googling stuff and going to the wikibooks noob to pro thing and using tuts like agent47crows' (i think) tutorials.

Yea, Agent47Crows is a great resource when it comes to video tuts for blender. (and crysis rocks too)

yea im better than he is in tutorials lol. here is a dagger i made.

crap it didnt upload meh picture. btw i made this in blender.

Quite good. about 7/10 from me. For a higher rating i would say get a good wood texture from google for the handle and ground, and make the spec (in the shaders tab on the material buttons.) quite low, and make the metal a bit more reflective. and some ambient occlusion would look quite good as well.

still quite good though.

actually the metal couldnt be much more reflective. because i changed the sky color(or world color or whatever) to silver or gray or whattever because my blade was looking too blue. how would i make it shinyer though? Btw thanks for the tips.