okay...i have rhino....i LOVE it for many things, poser clothing, most assuredly. i bought Max a couple of years ago, could not learn it. (hah, thought i got a good deal...yeah right, for a coaster.) i purchased lw, this past month...and, it does seem like an excellent program for the direction i want to take. and, to me...it is not that hard....YET. lots of reading, instead of playing, though. wings rocks!!! plsin and simple. it is more like play than work. the learning curve is flatline/none. try it. if you like that style of modelling/as opposed to rhino's nurbs...which are way cool, too....then, think about one of the higher end subdivision modellers. amapi was the first program, for me, where modelling "clicked".