Nebula There is also Cinma4DXL for the MAC which is optimized for dual processors and altivec, the render times look impressive on a G4. Also, don't overlook the free version 3.6 of Pixels3D which is a very powerful program that has nurbs, sculpting, animation, transparency export for 3dmf, animation, particles, shaders akin to Carrara etc, etc. Get it here: http://www.pixels.net/newweb2/support/downloads.html