lythron,Your responce to Niles' question about what kind of art your interested in, shows you have a good idea of what direction you what to go.Daivd Ho and other artist that work in that style really use Poser to create human like elements for use in Photoshop(David Ho uses Poser,Bryce,and Photoshop). Working in that genre you'll probably find little use in the "specialty" features found in Poser5. So what it boils down to is....whichever one you get the best price on,should meet your needs. SWAMP