thats an very interesting thread and i have to say that i wanted to start something like this in the german carrara amapi forum,the reason for this was that newbies are believing that everything you see in the gallery is made with carrara and amapi(nearly ewverything in the gallery can be done with amapi and carrara)and 2 personal messages i recieved a while ago. no company is perfect and also no program is perfect and i think when im going to buy a new tool i dont browse to the galleries from a company(most of the time)im always looking for forums like this and for the galleries to make my decision,for me it is very important to see and hear what the users are thinking and so on.i made the same when i bought carrara studio 2 some years ago when i found this forum what i really like and gave me all i needed to know i was sure that i have bought something great.i think eovia should write which image was done with (for example)lightwave and carrara or amapi and max this would be better for the newbies.i have lightwave and use it togehter with carrara cause i think carrara rocks and also amapi.but since im using lightwave togehter with carrara it looks like im a bad man,maybe im a traitor,hahahaha.:) have a nice day/night and happy modeling and rendering no matter what you use and sorry for my stupid comment. Dominik