Well actually the irony of all this is that I have personally made a very comfortable living with "pretty Pictures" myself- but as you may or may not know (or care), I don't post them in the Renderosity Gallery. I use Poser, MAX and Lightwave- as well as Vue and Bryce, and my final app is always Photoshop. I began using 3D software in 1985 using the (then) highly innovative Targa 16 and later Targa 24-32 series. FULL COLOR and Hi-Rez, way back in the 80's! (Before some of you were even born, maybe). I also produced some of the very first CD-ROM titles and made LOTS of $$$ selling them in Japan, where the Japanese are always hot for the very latest technology (and where they were early adaptors of CD-ROM's since they MADE THEM, heh!) I was also using PhotoShop when the Knoll brothers still owned it and it was called "XP". Mainly I'm the kind of guy who looks for future trends and gets on them before most other people do, make money with them, and then bail out into another hot trend. By the time the trend has peaked, I'm out of it. It's very much like surfing, which I was also into in my younger days. (Actually, I like horseback riding now- since I'm very fond of horses). But yes, my constant POUNDING of the keyboard is because I am excited and see a major turning-point trend already. Large fortunes (or at least very comfortable lifestyles) are and will be created by getting early on into areas where the "experts" are Nay-Saying and Pooh-Poohing as "not possible, too far away, not likely," etc. I remember very well when I started my multimedia CD-ROM company how many people said "Hardly anyone OWNS a CD-ROM player- you will only sell as few", etc. I made $500,000 in my first year- (1991 -when there was a major war and the US was in a major recession) and I was then still an absolute IDIOT at running a business! A few bright people out there will "sense" the possiblities and in the next two years will transform a lot of preceptions and some of the companies that we know today, may very likely be gone.