Hi Hack, the NURBS are better in most cases like industrial design (cars, objects for home use, instruments, etc), polygons and subdivision surfaces are usally better for character creation and life forms. There are at the moment dozen of modeler softwares on the market. Regarding me, i use Carrara, Amapi and Wings because the things that have one don't have the others (wings is free). I don't know if exist a software that can do all that a serious designer need, for example the way that i can apply bevels and selections on wings is much better than carrara and amapi, but amapi have the best arsenal for sure, i can't live without it. Maybe Silo is a good alternative, but i really don't like the GUI! Wings instead is similar to Carrara vertex modeler. For my work, also in very complex models this is all that i need. TOXE