I did some checking up on AM and was impressed with what the program offers I was like WOE! just about everything I can imagine this program can do. But I always reasearch a product thoroughly before I spend my hard earned cash and I do mean bust your butt hard earned cash LOL. I wasn't Impressed with Hash's website you'd think they would put up a great looking website to support sell their product right? Like evoia. Also did some reading of other peoples experiences and they didn't sound to happy with the program, not the features they always praised the features but hash's bad support or AM's stabilyti issues turned me off. It sounds like carrara's a better deal WAYYYYY! better deal. I'm not that new to 3D sorry if I gave you that idea :). I understand polygons, texture mapping, bunp mapping all that good stuff I just didn't realize vertex, mesh, and polygons were so different. I've been thinking about a 3D program for years but just didn't have the dough or time. I figure rendering characters would be much easier than drawing several hundred frames.