I've always been interested in 3D art. I remember as a kid going to the library to find books on how to make perspective drawings. I spent days on setting up vanishing points and drawing frame works so that I could draw the cars I designed from different view points. When I was in Junior and Senior High School I took all the art and drafting classes they offered. I then went on to study Architecture and Structural Engineering at a local college. I came to 3D computer art through an old DOS computer CAD program called Generic CAD. They came out with their 3D modeling program Generic CAD 3D (a very original name) and was thrilled by all the possibilities. The program didn't go over very well (there wasn't much you could do with a 3D program that could run on a 286 processor) and was soon dropped by Generic CAD. It wasn't much of a program, but I sure had a lot of fun with it on my old CompuAdd 286 with 640k of memory and a 20MB hard drive. I looked around for another 3D modeling program for years but they were either too expensive or were not worth using. Then I came across RayDream 4 and got hooked again. I've upgrade through all the RayDream versions and am now using Carrara v1.1. Keith