The tools are becoming more affordable, but then what was considered high end a few years ago is low end now. I agree the high enders have nothing to worry about (if they keep up), but the day is coming when the computer software itself will put a few high enders out of a job. Computers that only need a few quality pictures and a button pushed for models and landscapes. Of course that still leaves modeling things that don't exist in the real world and worlds that no longer exist, but even that depends on how good the software gets. No, an eleven year old kid isn't going to be able to mow enough lawns to by software and the machines that can render it, but then here is another service. Send your files to a service that can and for a fee in a week or month or few days you have the renders you couldn't have done at home. Some studios do that I hear, it's not heard of for hobbyist and amatuers yet. People are still trying to make there home computer do their own. When are they going to realize that's too expensive to keep maintianing and in a year or two their obsolete already.