I look on this partnership with a weary eye. I used Poser 3, and Bryce 3d, and I found them (for me) entirely useless (I also quite disliked their interfaces). I started with Raydream 3d way back when, and moved soon to Raydream St. 5.5. It took some time for me to grow warm to the idea of Carraras interface (which I felt was too gooy and would get in the way), but I have finally done it. There is such a thing as making user interfaces too dumb, but Carrara is on the right side of that issue. These late developments, however, make me weary. The bridge between Carrara and Amapi, made me fear that we will never be getting NURBS and other such powerful modeling techniques in Carrara. The Poser bundle just furthers my fears that Carrara may become trivialized. On the box they refer to Carrara as the: complete, accessible, and productive 3d solution, lets hope my fears are unfounded, that it remains thus by itself, and that the package can scope from serious users, to beginners, with the ease it has done. EMC