Damn! e-frontier are the owners of Shade! http://shade.e-frontier.co.jp/en/index.html This could be a very good thing to happen. e-frontier even has an English version of the program available. Their rendering engine is miles ahead of anything in Poser.... People, this could be a very, very big thing for our community!!!! Glenn Souhtern (of Zbrush fame) reviewed the V5 package here: http://www.creative-3d.net/Shade.cfm Scope out some stuff done in shade: http://www.buichi.com/E/index_nf.html I think this is excellent news, and much more than just some business swallowing another one. e-frontier has been looking to get exposure and market share in the US/UK for some time now and this is probably how they're going to manage it. Mark my words. This rocks. I think I'll buy that buggy P5 now in hopes of getting some kind of freebie deal from e-frontier.