Difficult subject. When i read your statement my first reaction was - when i want to copy reality i take my camera and go out. No need for 3D here. Computers (and their users) can only lose in that. Second reaction was, "where is the end of purism?" I had discussions like that for long. Since i started doing computer graphics in the 80s last century. To illustrate what i mean, the real computer graphic artists (as they call themselves) would never ever use a software for doing graphics. Software limits your creativity. You only play with a predefined set of functions and tools. A little too pure for me, but consewuent in a way. Where is the start and where is the end of purism? Maybe someone can tell me! I think i said it already a while ago. Let your common sense decide what is right and what isn't. There is simply no law for things like that. I think i agree with you Dave, everybody must decide for themselves what to do. I prefer to have fun and therefore use stuff great modelers have done for me. BTW,how is the lineup for professional 3D studios? There are guys to come up with an idea, others that draw the storyboards, others that model, others to texture the models, others for the light, others for the motion, others for the postwork, others for invoicing etc etc. And we poor amateurs should do all that alone? Well...

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.