The Bible
http://books.google.com/books?id=AKETzc3ilN0C&source=gbs_similarbooks_r&cad=2
and websites
http://cg.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/
and youtube is a good place 

I'm self taught.

And I'm sorry about your grandpa.

Same thing with me:

With all of my modeling programs I just winged it until I knew what to do




------------------------Except Blender

Quote from: miker95 on June 24, 2011, 08:53:44 AM

Hey guys I was wondering.

Quote

Where did you learn 3D modeling?

^^that explains it all.
Did you learn it in college? Self taught? Maybe read a book about it? Or watched some online tutorials?
If you watched online tutorials, link??

i downloaded Silo 2. I opened a model someone had made and destroyed it.

self taught, trial and error. There are tutorials if u like that thing, but i find its best to jump in and just focus until you learn from your mistakes

Yea thats usually how I am, I just wanted to get everyone elses story.

I started back in high school in 1988 in computers, in 1993 at F.S.U. for 2 years and since then wing it myself using lots of the programs out there. Poser 6, 3DS Max Studio 9, Fragmotion, Maya 6, Terragen, Macromedia Studio/ Dreamweaver Studio, Jasc PSP Pro 8 with Animation Studio, Silo, Unity, UDK and a few others.(about to get a copy of Rage Engine soon through a friend) No updates to them as I dont have my license anymore so I work with what I got, except ill upgrade the less than $100 ones one at a time.
 I have done 3D rendering and made a few animation videos, nothing spectacuar (or on this new PC yet) Now working out the rusty kinks on some of them to make a game or two.

Rage Engine! As in the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

slave who makes it.

Thats illegal

I got 3dsmax version 5, 10 years ago on a Twilight (illegal) cd from a friend. I already did a lot with Photoshop for websites, but I wanted to learn 3d. The sample 3d pictures were very stimulating. 3dsmax was very complex, but I read the manual and step by step I learned everything. While making games I was inspired to learn texturing, rigging, animating and sculpting. Finally I reached the point of getting a littlebit serious in 3d. 3dsmax was way out of my budget (I think it was 10.000 euro) and I started my quest for other modeling apps. I used Silo for a while, but it was a too big step for me to learn and lacked a lot of usefull stuff. I did try out maya just for fun. Luckly blender started with a new version that looked a bit easier to learn. With a lot of videotutorials and visiting some blender colleges I learned how to use it in full. Now I use a free 3d modeling/unwrapping/texturing/3d painting/animation/compositing/video editing application (blender).