I Maya and it is well worth the money. The biggest problem is knowing how to achive the your goal effect, cause the program is deep. Maya complete can be purchased for 2000 US dola. Its a trimmed down version from Maya Unlimited. It doesn't have all the custom plugins like maya fur and fluid effects. But recently it did add subD surfaces to the complete version. But for more info you will have to check the website. I am in the gaming industries, and have heard of studios cutting thier production times in half, by converting to maya. I also have a copy of Lightwave and have used Max. But as far as Maya is concerned it's modeler is Unparalleled. Oh buy the way does anyone know how to import a model into poser from another program via obj or ?, or is it posible been building set of armor for Victria 2.0 and for my demo reel and was wondering if I could share it with the Poser community hahaha. By the way Poser ROCKS hahahaha