Modo

I'd suggest Blender but the learning curve is steep. Go to best freeware downloads.com or cnet.com. Another is softpedia.com. I'd put them in links but the link thingy is greyed out. Here's some freebies I've downloaded:

Truespace---comes with a set of tutorials in a second installer package

Kerkythea-v1[1].3.04---this is a rendering engine

Yaf(a)ray r299.win32===another renering engine

HyCad by Jiang.Jiang

Apophysis2.08_3dhack 

     There are probably more but these are the ones I have. Good luck. Sorry about the no links.

Cinema4d is enough easy or Maya but this is more difficult to use

What's a modo

I had a lot of luck using Wings3d, which is free.

Yeah... I'm agree with Sc4rfy, Cinema 4D is easy to use and has a good render.

I have a free Autodesk program that allows you to create models, its the Softimage mod tool http://www.softimage.com/products/modtool/

Wings3D... its easy free and widely used.

CB Model Pro... but its very basic and results are high polygon.

Maya Maya Maya....only $6000...(200 if Student)

I have Maya open right now making a spaceship haha

$6000! Holy crap! What possesed you to buy that?! Are you freaking insane!?

And as for the answer to the question Id use the XSI Mod Tool. It works great and it free!

There is no 'easy' way to produce original 3d models of any quality.

Blender is actually the least convoluted interface I've run across... although my favorite modeler is Rhino.

Maya is powerful but not an easy to use tool. It's not for beginners. Let him try his hands on free softwares and gain some expertise. After that he will decide.

I bought the $200 student edition haha, I'm a student majoring in Digital Art haha

A great piece of modeling, texturizing and animatiing software.

http://www.luxology.com/