"Yeah, and any minute now my fridge is going to spontaneously fill itself up with bottles of Bass Ale." ROTFLMAO! To be honest, there are lot of things in process. Anton is right - $600 for a proggie, even this one (and after seeing it run for the first time, I was real damned close to just handing my Amex card overand telling them to charge whatever they thought they wanted for it), is way out of the hobbyists' reach. No matter what it costs, two things are certain: 1) A whole new market will open up for hobbyist and professional alike, and the move will be seismic enough that it will force even the big boys like Alias and Discreet to stand up and take notice. IMsortaHO, I strongly suspect that this will be the program that will kick all the high-end CG snobs square in the 'nads ...and that's just based on what little I did get to see of it. 2) Curious Labs won't be able to take the hobbyist for granted any longer. I doubt that they ever had, but now more than ever, they won't be so cavalier about releasing code before it is mature enough to pass muster. They will also have to drop their prices accordingly, which means that the big winner here is you and I... the customers. /P