I understand exactly what you mean when describing Blender. I too have been learning how to operate the program and have to say that in many ways it even beats Carrara7pro (which is one of the programs I have been using in the past) eventually I think I will be cleaning my hard-drive and desktop to turn it solely for the use of blender and any other externaly attached program such as Makehuman and (hopefully one day) Sculptris if a script is ever developed for it. Anouther great part of Blender is the number of books available for the product of which I have an ever growing collection (even more than my mothers Mills&Boon "LOL").