free programs

So I still can't find an adaptor to borrow which really sucks because I have stuff due in classes where I need one. But anyway, I was talking to one of my professors and was telling him how I want to be a 3D animator at DreamWorks long-term and he emailed me a few websites that give you free programs (except one of them).

I don't know too much about google sketchup but we made some 3D models in it and I think its a program worth learning. Smustard it an add-on for sketchup and gives you more features. Rhino as far as I know is a 3D modeling program. I think it can animate but I'm not sure. And the best thing is they're all free! Finally there is pepakura. You feed it 3D information and it it will tell you how to make the model out of paper by putting in tabs for you to stick together and telling you where to fold. This one costs something, but apparently a lot of people buy it to make halloween costumes. On the website you can look at other people's portfolio and there are some incredibly detailed creations.

http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/download/index.html

http://mac.rhino3d.com/

http://www.smustard.com/

http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/