C5 has modelling tools and they work good, but the pro has some very interesting modelling tools that the standard does not have. Alternatively, you could get C5+Hexagon for 299 which contains the pro modelling stuff plus probably more (I cannot compare to the pro I have the standard.) What do strike me is that the rendering is far better than Poser and quicker. I love C5 and I love Hexagon now. :-) Oh yes I purchased the Transpose plugin, but have some problems when loading Poser characters, they sometimes lose their texture. I solve this by importing those as obj file.