In the last issue of MacAddict I found a trial software that I found very interesting. http://groboto.com/index.htm It takes a new view at 3d modeling. It's advertised as a Kid's software but I bought it because I saw the potential in it. I made some strange trees buy check out this artist's page and you'll see some really cool examples. http://www.braid.com/electricGardeni-0.htm It has a built in renderer but you can export RayDream and obj. files. My trees were rendered in Carrara It only woks in Classic for Macs but they are working on the OS X version... any way I thought you might like it. Let's support the small guys out there! : )