These three Blender tutorials cover modelling, rigging, animating, and texturing a longbow in Blender. This is a sequel to my shield tutorial, http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/lets-blend-tutorial-series, and takes much the same form, only in three episodes this time. The finished bow can be found here: http://opengameart.org/content/animated-longbow
Episode 1: Modelling - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE0p_u726S4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUAy...
Episode 2: Rigging and Animating - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-A672qAqqs&feature=c4-overview&list=UUAy...
Episode 3: Unwrapping and Texturing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_DJoaOlpp4
you should check out Rhino too if you want a free 3D program. thanks for sharing.
Nice tuts djonvincent You may also what to check this one out http://vimeo.com/46652649
+ theres some great figure animation tuts for blender also
http://anthonymyers.artstation.com/
I watched that tutorial but his method required using a lot of bones as opposed to using only 2. It was still good though.
Dion H.S.