Allen Hastings is one of the original creators of Lightwave made by Newtek. Recently (2 years now?) Allen and Stuart Ferguson plus a bunch of the crew from Newtek left to form Luxology and their product is Modo a 3d modeling application. think of Modo as Lightwave modeler on steroids with all the cool features that were not put into Lightwave 8 because these guys left Newtek. People that love Lightwave modeler love Modo, those that don't care for lightwave seem to have a similar distaste for Modo.