Well...I came to 3D art about 4 years ago when I was living in the dorms at Texas Tech. A friend of mine was big into art but the 2D stuff. One day he was showing me some stuff on the net that had been made in Bryce 3D. I thought it was pretty cool and went out and bought the program (student version) From there I moved on to Bryce 4 and eventually to Carrara and now even Max (Max mainly b/c of Carrara v 1.0.1) I mostly do work for my own pleasure, but every once in a while I'll do something for a client so I can afford to live! I wouldn't call myself a true professional by any means, but renderosity has really helped me to grow in the area of 3D graphics. I usually check out the pages here a couple of times a day to see if there is anybody that I can help...and learn from the ones I can't. Jared