I started with POVray when I was in college in the mid-90s. We had SUN and SGI workstations to play with at that time. Soon after that, I got my first PC (a splendid Pentium 75MHz :) ) and it wasn't very long before I got hooked by Bryce. I got increasingly frustrated with Bryce's cryptic material editor and lack of 4 views display, so I looked for alternatives and found Vue. I fell in love with it and rarely opened Bryce since. Around that time, I stumbled on Renderosity and discovered Poser, a perfect solution to add characters to Vue. Since then, I tried to improve my postwork skills with Painter and Photoshop on one hand, and my modeling skills with Amapi and now Hexagon (another soft I literally fell in love with). I occasionally use Carrara as an all-in-one package to go with Hexagon and Amapi. I recently got Zbrush but never really clicked with it though. And I have a copy of Rhino 3 I am considering to sell by the way - I won it in a contest and never really used it as well. Since I can't afford one of the big 4s (Maya, 3DS, Lightwave or XSI), my logical choice when I grow out of Vue and Carrara will be Cinema 4D... although from the look of it, it will take a long time before I start feeling tight with what I have so far.

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