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<< If you think metaball modelling is primitive>> Not primitive but convoluted and unintuitive. Like most of the folks on this forum I live on the computer, having given up getting my hands dirty with clay, paint and other materials. The productivity gain is of course more than substantial. There are a few areas where computer tools have a ways to go however amazing they are. For example nearly everyone who works in 2d digital cel type animation starts with paper and pencil because its still more efficient. Maybe Wacom will come out with a tablet that has a screen on it that will change that. Modeling is obviously an area that is still developing. Its my impression that lots of professional modeling is done with digitizers which are more expensive than software solutions. How could they sell these digitizers if modeling on the computer was easier? Also I think your examples rely on the phenomonal skill of the guy that did the woman and dynasour and dont represent the time it would take most of your customers to do comprable models. Dont get me wrong, I own your product ( I will check out the models you mention when I get r2 ) and other amazing products like meshpaint. But they are amazing like the early cameras were, much faster than painting but they cost a bundle, weighed a ton, and required lots of training to use. Now we just point and click. In that sense everything we use now to create digital output is primitive. The truth is that I love all you programmers that facilitate my work but I wont be satisfied till I can just think it to make it happen (G). Of course the Krell didnt survive it. Ed