I personally like it (post prod) mostly for doing the things I either can't do in Vue, or don't have the patience for, such as hair. I personally think that even the BEST transmapped hair still doesn't give me quite what I want. Of course, you run the risk of losing the 3D effect, if you're not paying close enough attention to shadows and light sources, but that's just like painting, and something you can get used to. My first love was drawing with regular graphite pencils and then later with charcoal and pastels and up to acrylics and oils...possibly the "standard" progression. I'm still pretty new to 3D CG art, and as such I find Painter 6 to be immensely useful. Were it not for that program, I would feel far less inclined to show off any pics I've made. I also love compositing and techniques such as painting one image into another. Like I said earlier, once my Vue render finishes, that's when the second half of the fun starts. :) Mike