[raxxorrax]

I like https://www.babylonjs.com/ very much, if you can live with JS. It has a nice community and very good tutorials.

https://playground.babylonjs.com/ is nice to dabble and you can start right now.

You already know about shaders and pixels, but I really recommend doing a blender tutorial to understand the pipeline from modeling to computer graphics. There is a lot of shared terminology.

Aside from that, modelling can be immense fun.