Yeah bikermouse I'm the same way.. That's why so many of my renders are technical tests or challenges for myself rather than actual art... Rarely have I made something.. to make it.. it's usually to see if I can indeed make it. I wish I could just stick with something but I get too bored.. I've allready learned bryce, wings, blender, povray, lightwave modeler, blender, rhino, vue (through a friend), tried some stuff in z-brush (which my uncle owns), worldbuilder, inventor, photoshop, paint shop pro, after effects, premier, Autocad, and probably tens of other things that aren't dropping off the top of my head. But the only one that I know a lot about is bryce because I've used it for so long... everything else I just know enough to get along. I'd like to learn some of the bigger apps, but to tell you the truth I'd rather just get better with the modelers that I have instead of trying to learn maya or softimage or 3ds max which have much more depth.