Well not having much experience with these kind of programs, but some years ago I played with a trial of a program that was really easy in making nice looking 3D text and small symbols.
Have a look at the trial of ulead cool3D.
http://www.ulead.com/c3ds/runme.htm
This should have changed a lot from the version I remember and I don’t really know if it’s up for the job you want it though.
All I remember is that it had a user friendly interface so you shouldn’t need much time to use it properly.
Ah and nice job as always for the video