MikeJ, without knowing if you are right or not....for someone moving from Poser to a more powerful app for character animation with expressions, dynamic cloth and hair and brilliant rendering, I believe I am finding LW not oldish-feeling at all.

And at $800 for unlimited nodes, 64-bit, Please....It is up to Maya to explain how it is worth $5000.  And....what is the cost of the Maya learning curve and discovering what you "Dont' Need To Know" from within the Maya universe?

I'm into it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKH9T1tpt4s&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO4Ev6LGctE&NR=1

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