Hmm. I could never get into Amapi. Probably would help if I put in the money for one of the later versions (not the free one that shipped with Carrara). Given that I already fought my way through Ray Dream I feel quite comfortable in Carrara, esp in the vastly-improved Vertex Modeller. Also, though, getting into C4d as an adjunct modeller. Very different arrangement but for some reason it "clicks" with me. I've been creating Poser stuff of late and the need to have a clean, animatable, properly grouped, and optimized mesh means I do almost everything in Vertex. I hate trying to clean up what the Spline (or outside modellers) do; mostly I've been building from scratch (inefficient as that is). I'm hoping to do some Carrara stills soon where I'm not having to export a mesh, and thus can go wild with distorts and booleans and so forth.