Hi Steama. No, I havnt decided to shelve LW just yet, but I am getting more comfortable with Carrara each day. I should have a project coming up soon for the studio. One of their clients, a local car dealer, usually has a theme for each month. So, for that project I intend to try Carrara since they are usually fairly simple. There are very few things I have done over the years with Lightwave that Carrara couldnt handle. Mainly Hypervovels. Modeling is a different story though. The modeler will be the hardest for me to wean myself from. I can see some things in Carrara that I would loved to have had for some past projects. Namely trees, and the explode deformer ( I like to run it backwards to "build" a logo from fragments). The other deformers are cool too. The rendering speed and a few of the things I mentioned above are the main reasons I was interested in Carrara, that and as I mentioned before, sometimes its good change software. Sometimes the challenge alone of learning something new and exploring its capabilities sparks some creativity. With that said, if I were a power user of Lightwave in a production environment doing lots of character animation or I was tied to a dedicated pipeline then I wouldnt even consider changing. But, for what I do Carrara can handle it and it has a lot of other stuff that I want to try, and of course the speedy rendering engine. Donnie