Heya Richard. grin I looked at www.maxon.net in their online store. It wasn't easy to find the link -- but do yourself a favor and work with the demo -first-. I'll dig around in a bit and see if I can find the competitive upgrade part; I think it was a tiny little link at the bottom of the main order page that went to a different link. It's a lot of money if you decide you don't like it, you know? Bodypaint standalone is going to cost the same amount as the very basic C4D+Bodypaint, weirdly enough, so I'd recommend going that route. More tools for the same price is always good. Support... dunno. It's definitely there and I did have an issue I had to call their tech folks about in the beginning, but they resolved it in -seconds-, and were very friendly about it. There are a lot of tutorials you can buy, but honestly, I had a friend walk me through the basics to help me because after that I couldn't afford -anything- else (and still can't for a while yet).

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