Just my two pennies worth. Look at what DJs do these days: they take snippets of original music, mix them together in a hap hazard manner, and then call it a record. Is that art? Are they really artists?Fat Boy Slim would think so. Even tho a loop from his "Praise You" song was taken from an original, and whose original artist wasn't too happy about it. But thats beside the point. He would still consider himself, and other DJs, to be artists. Even tho all they do is recombine pieces of other people's work and pass it off as their own. What we do with these 3D software is no different.Furthermore, thats the intention of the software makers!Within limits, of course. Damien Hurst stuck a dead sheep in a tank of formaledhyde. He didn't create the sheep, the forces of evolution/God/whatever did. Mozart didn't build the piano he used to create music; Van Gogh didn't build his own easel or make his own brushes, to paint the Sunflowers. It's been said in the previous posts: the creativity and imagination of the end user defines them as an artist. Doesn't matter if they haven't literally created anything themselves. Of course, being able to say that you built the model, whatever, yourself, is an ego boost ;) JoeBlack