Hey, just thought I would post this and let ya all know about aliaswavefronts big ta doo. Next month Aliaswavefront is releasing a learners edition of maya free to download or on cd for $5. It includes all the tools of maya complete. Whats the downside? Watermarks on all of your renderings, and weird ass formats that can't be used by other software, and lastly you can't use any third party plugins with it...and oo yeah, 1 year subscription, but renewable. But then again beggars can't be choosers!