heyas; ray dream can do some decent figure modelling; i used it exclusively (er, well it and amorphium) for the dragon figures of dragon factory. but you want details, you gotta put in the points yourself, and move them all by hand. it is SLOW. (you can do automatic subdivisions and triangulations, but you quickly lose control of your shape that way.) i got the rhino demo, and building things with this sucker is FAST. you only need to create a few (as little as 4) outlines and skin them. the nurbs-to-polygon conversion can be a bit tricky, but it can be done. i used rhino's drape thingy to make a horse blanket, by draping it over the horse (converted from obj to 3dm -- ask jeeves, he knows where that util is), and trimming the outline. there's pictures of it around (search for horse blanket). the mesh turned out kinda messy, but the model is sweet, it even has little natural folds in it that i wouldn't have made if i were building it by hand in ray dream.