Funny thing about people saying, "That's just your opinion, Atomic!", is that it's obvious that it's YOUR opinion, considering YOU obviously typed it! I have nothing against DAZ really, I think that Studio was a great anti-poser step. Having just started using Maya, I'm very much looking forward to uninstalling Poser 5 someday soon. Nothing against Poser, but there isn't anything you can do in Poser that you can't do in Maya, and there are a million things you can't do in Poser that you CAN do in Maya. Maybe even a billion! But after seeing Pendulum's proposal for Bryce 6, I can't imagine anything LESS than that as a reality. If DAZ doesn't at least incorporate HALF of what he was considering, then I'll probably just skip Bryce 6 and stick with Maya 6 and Bryce 5, with Rhino and Photoshop for input-output apps... Of course, I didn't buy Maya 6 all by myself, and Bryce 6 is something I could actually afford, but sometimes it's really hard to justify being loyal to one program when you've been let down so many times. If all they do in Bryce 5.5 is decrease render speeds, I'm afraid I won't be buying it at all. And if Bryce 6 isn't done in six months, I'm afraid I'll have surpassed any of it's potentials with Maya by then and Bryce 6 will be totaly useless to me. Again, there's nothing that Bryce can do that Maya can't, already, and if they don't change that somehow it doesn't make sense to me to invest any money in something that won't get me a job or make me any money back. When looking for a job, you will never find a position for Bryce Artist, but there are dozens for Maya animators, because it is very difficult to use but very powerful. Bryce is a great program, though, and I DO love it dearly! I even finished a ten-second animation this week, made me a quick $350 in less than ten hours of actual work!