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does anyone know any good ones?

i've done some search but get flooded with "Modeling a Character in 3DS Max"

just wondering what other options are.

Video tutorials for Blender? I find modeling and rigging in Blender, even for my non-artistic bent, rather simple.

oh sorry, forgot to mention it's for 3DS 7.

Er, then what is it about the hits you get when searching that don't have what you need?

google seems to be spammed. i spent 3-5 hours searching for 3ds character tutorials. i kept arriving at the same tutorial. even under different domains.

i found the same with the books.

i might try searching amazon, instead of google...

EDIT: ah, there seems to be heaps to look at here.

New Riders - Model, Rig and animate with 3ds max 7 - good book. Doesn't use biped.

hi jacmoe. can you please comment why you mentioned biped. i was going to animate my characters using biped, however is it best to use bones with ogre?

I mentioned biped because the above book doesn't use biped, and because if you know how to manually construct a full skeleton from bones you will understand (and appreciate) what biped (and Character Studio) does for you.
I don't know what the situation is now, but not too long ago biped wasn't fully supported by the Ogre exporters.
I think you can use biped without problems now.