Aye, I sell prints of my artwork, but it's expensive to print. Mostly, I do business graphics. Photoshop stuff, and when I'm lucky I can add my own stuff into it all. Rhino work, gearing up for some rapid-prototyping (jewelry), and designing advertising material for local exteriors company. Just like Rhino, Maya is something the people I work with thought would benefit them, so they gave me free reigns... Really, if you want to go career with 3D graphics, you have to learn one of the high-end packages. 3DStudio Max, Maya, XSI, or Lightwave, although Cinema4D is becoming more popular as it grows in power. So, the powers that be asked which one was the best for photo-realism, and after some careful 25 years of research I pointed them towards Alias' offering. Has it paid for itself...? The average window-installation around here is $10,000. Average permanent (vinyl) siding job is $20K. Permanent steel-shingle roofing is closer to $30K. Considering we manage 50 of these projects a month, software to make photo-realistic window renderings for their ads is just a drop in the bucket. One day I hope to be able to re-texture homes on the fly and present potential clients with full-on renditions of what their new siding could look like on THEIR house, and that will really be fun! My jewelry cohorts aren't quite so lucrative or wealthy, but it'll pick up speed once we get to the first "harvest". (casting)