After a long time and a lot of personal changes in my life, I have to say that I will be stepping down as moderator for the Carrara forum.  The change is needed for several reasons.

1.)  I simply do not have the time needed to devote to the forum that it deserves.  My life has taken a lot of turns since I moved across the country and stepping down from the forum is going to have to be another one of those changes.

2.)  I'm a modeler.  Not a poser.  A large fraction of the issues with the forum have been Poser and Daz related and I'm plain and simply of ZERO help.  This isn't fair to the forum either.

3.)  The last year has been very interesting for me in the sense that other members have responded to 98% of the threads as well or as better than I could on an hourly basis whereas I have only been able to log on once a day at best.  In other words, my personal touch hasn't been that practical.

4.)  The forum needs a fresh charge.  I'm hurting it at the moment.

I will still be around.  I've been with Carrara since it was born and I'll stay with it a while longer.  I'm very interested to see what will happen with the change to Daz.  Naturally I want the software to continue to get better, more features, less bugs, etc..  We'll see what happens.

The staff is working on my replacement and I'm sure that change will come along in a few days.  It's been a great ride and I've had a lot of fun!  I've written tutorials, reviews, and magazine articles.  All of it has been great!  I'm glad to have met so many great Carrara users and I'm proud to have been a staff member of Renderosity.

All my best, keep rendering and absolutely most of all, have FUN!

-Kix