I was exposed to 3D very early. While being born that doctor's hand came down on my butt and was undeniably a complete 3D experience! Much later I bought Bryce 2 on a whim. Until then I had only done 2D so was impressed by how easy it was to change viewpoints with 3D. Next came Poser and eventually I thought it would be useful to be able to do my own minor models so bought Amorphium. I am still surprised that this mistake didn't destroy any further desire to model. I bought a used copy of Carrara but that turned out to be a pirated rip-off so I don't have much experience with this program. That should change soon as I am expecting my copy to arrive from Eovia any day now. I suppose I'd consider myself a 3D virgin though I've done some heavy petting... Mostly I do this stuff for my own amusement but I have sold enough work to pay for my last round of software and a new IBM Pentium notebook.