The $5000 price point for XSI advanced includes 36 nodes of Mental Ray and a module for orchestrating vast battle scenes and crowd behavior.  It's a film studio-level release.

But at the $3000-3500 level, that is a different matter. My point is that there are now three major apps at that level, not two. Ghonma, thanks for the idea....I've got the money put aside for a license in this range, but if I get too nervous I'll look into Foundation.

Modo comes out to about $434.00 to go from nothing to the about to be released version. That's if you have Daz PC, which I do have, to start with the 101 version and upgrade. As for Lightwave, that might be a solution in price below $3000.

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