...but there is a certain purism running through the 3d world... Purism is a chimera- and a highly selective one at that. Where does one draw the line? So you create your own models. Did you also create the program used in their building? And if you did, was the model purely one of personal imagination or was it based upon a thing you saw in the "real world"? If absolutely everything was personally created can the creator truly claim to be completely uninfluenced by outside events, past and present? Expressed creativity is an amalgam of personal experience derived from interaction with and observations of the world at large. To claim otherwise is to assert that one's life has been an intellectual and emotional vacuum... and how does one create art from nothing? It is unimportant that the objects of your manipulation be completely your own. What counts is that you have used such resources to express your own unique view of life in a manner which is both intriguing and provoking to the viewer- even if only in the aesthetic sense. Need I say this is just one mind's opinion? - Jack