ah u know almost all of us here on this planet don't have enough money to buy everything we want ;) That's what economy was invented for haha Just save up again and see what u can buy in a while. If you're looking to go towards high-end apps, you can already get some practice with modelling in wings or amapi or truespace, mayaPLE, any software that's got free versions out there with magazines. You can use demo's, read up on theory and net things going on in the industry. And by the time u saved up enough to buy your copy of 3dsmax or softimageXSI or maya or such you'll have all this theory and already even some practice to your disposal which will make it easier to learn the professional app anyways. You'll find yourself looking at all the new tools going "hey, I know what this does!" even though u never used it before, just because you recognize the terminology.

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