Amapi is the most crytic and difficult 3D program I've ever seen or tried to work with. I have Version 5.1 of Amapi and it doesn't play nicely with my grapphire tablet. The pen works fine with it, but I have significant drag or lag with the cordless mouse. With what I've said above I certainly did not want to slam Carrara in the least. I will eventually upgrade my Carrara to V2, but since I have no real interest in doing a lot of modeling right now, it will have to wait. It's always been my dream to develop my own series of Poser Figures, but it's been beyond my skills for the time being. My primary interest 3D is character studies of human figures, which Poser does the best by far. That's why I emphasize if any of you want to have detailed studies of human figures in your composition as far as I'm concerned Poser is the only way to go and is a great program for the money, even with P5's faults.