I will give this Modo a look and read up on it. As far as 3D skills go, I'd say nill, but I've been drawing the concept art and I have designs already in my head for the environment, the objects, the character, and the enemies (all robots to make my life easy with the modeling). Now what I am trying to do is make them, but…
This is all just my opinion. You should check out Modo as well. Maya is a lot easier to learn and use than Blender. You can get an indie version on Steam for $30 a month, but that also comes with the Stingray game engine, but that doesn't really matter if you just want to use Unreal 4. I've never had any problems getting…