Alrighty then ... let me ask the obvious question here that shall be followed by at least 30 posts... Sigh... here goes... What's the objectively-as-possible best program to use to create objects quickly and easily with the most flexibility? So far, my experience is that Animation Master is difficult to master and bombs (with no save option) far far too often. My reviews have indicated (true or false?) that: [] Poser is excellent for, well, posing. And exporting poses to other software packages. However, creating objects to pose is a job for other packages. [] Bryce is wonderful for textures and lifelike geometry, unlike any other package. You can create objects, but only EXPORT the non-primitives (i.e. terrain), ruling out clothes, props, etc. [] Lightwave is good at creating objects but too expensive. [] 3dMax is not as easy an interface as Bryce/Poser, and there are SETS of books on different aspects of 3d development. That seems to indicate that it is difficult and requires knowledge of books to operate what other programs do intuitively. [] Carrara is a great interface, does tons, is a familiar easy interface like Poser/Bryce, but is now unavailable and buggy? [] World Builder sounds amazing but limited in creating specific objects - perhaps not it's intent. [] TrueSpace sounds too cheap to be full featured. [] any others?? Oh, and which is best to render in? Poser is FAST! Yet, I've seen posts that Bryce is much better at rendering due to the texturing. Thanks for the (hopefully objective) help - and the SLEW of responses to come after.