REASONS WHY A LOT (most people) OF PEOPLE LOVE BRYCE: 1: Bryce is cheaper as a program (soon to be phased out since corel is not developing it and is contemplating on selling their company) 2. ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY EASY INTERFACE! Darn! first time I saw and used bryce i already know how to use it... took me another 15 mins and i'm set to learn, create great images! while max... 3 months and i'm not even half way on the tutorial, and the MAx Bible? Ugh! total technicalities to the MAX! 3. Import models with ease... great lighting! fast posing etc... 4. more people (usually friendly ones) use it, and share their materials, skies etc. 5. We just simply love out little cute and cuddly Bryce, I love mine to the MAX! (no pun intended) I'm not agains any max or any high end user out there, i'm just angry at the ignorance that they have towards people like us, honestly i model using max or cinema4d to, but i never ever got egg headed and thought i was better that everybdy else, in fact the thought that i got was "wow! now i can share models to the Bryce Community, just like then sharing theirs to me....) tnx for all your responses... gud day