I agree. I've use 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Hash Animation:Master, Poser TrueSpace and a number of others. Some of them great, some of the good others not great but still useable. Shade 7 has been a few days on my harddisk, then I got so tired of it that I removed it forever and gave away the original CD to a friend. I'm not sure if the applications is that bad, but the workflow is. I was hoping it would be a good replacement for TrueSpace 6, but it isn't. I'm not planning on spending ages to get to know an application. It's so different that it just isn't fun anymore. I'm not a novice when it comes to applications and I can handle most of it what I do come accross, but Shade drove me crazy and that never happened before.

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Food for thought.....
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