I think it's a personal thing. Before I started building my own models, I got a great thrill out of using the downloads and putting together scenes and animations. Now it sort of lends an extra bit of creative pleasure to use my own stuff. But I still use everybody else's as well. A previous posting asked what the purpose of Poser is. I guess it boils down to whatever turns you on. Commercially I use Poser mostly to set up scenes to redraw on paper, to make storyboards, etc. But, as Don said, you own your own pictures, regardless of whose tools you use to create it. Berge