download all oinker tools, magos, and start modeling from primitives. To make basic model such as footman you will need at least 30 help-files... And the last one would be the result. And magos CAN make models from scratch, if they are particle emiters only, but it cant truely do anything else. Even THEN you would have to make a false animation, which uses non-existant keyframes which can be buggy as hell.
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get milkshape, it is da best (after 3dsmax of course)