I've been trying to encourage the desktop publishing designers at work to get started with 2D/3D animations. We have Director and Premiere for 2D stuff and Adobe Dimensions and Infini-D for 3D. I mainly use Poser, Infini-D and Premiere for my animations. The complaint I've heard from some of the folks at work is that our 3D apps aren't very "intuitive". Since Infini-D has been discontinued we are looking for a replacement.Some of the suggestions from others has been Lightwave, 3D Studio Max or Maya, since they seem pretty popular and probably won't be discontinued like Infini-D. My feeling is that you can't much more "entry-level" than Dimensions and Infini-D and if they're having trouble learning those then I doubt any other app is going to be more "intuitive", unless you slap on a VR helmet and gloves and do your modeling/animating that way. It seems there's always a layer of abstraction with any 3D app and they should get used to it. I'm personally interested in Ligtwave but I'm not recommending it to others. So, any thoughts on this? Are there any 3D apps that are more "intuitive", that can actually take a technology like 3D and make it as simple as "A-B-C"? Cinema4D,Strata Studio Pro, Pixels3D? Thanks (I posted this in the 3D Applications forum but this forum seems to get more traffic)