I downloaded the Zbrush Demo and it boggled my mind, but I haven't worked through all the product tour modules yet. It seems to be an excellent texturing program and being able to paint on the model itself is a real winning quality. The think what I liked about the Deep Paint Demo is that it seemed to have less of a learning curve than either Painter or ZBrush; but I'm not sure that it will do everything I want. My problem is that I can get a really good buy on either Painter or Deep Paint for Photoshop, but not as good a one on ZBrush. Regardless of which program I get they will take a while to master I suppose. If I had $300 to spend I wouldn't hestitate to buy ZBrush right now. I still have a vague hope that I will be able to win a copy of ZBrush on Daz3D's new contest. . . If I don't win it, I will probably buy it as soon as I can afford it.