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Paintbrush and Deluxe Paint are bitmap-oriented programs, you need to convert them to structured, outline-based graphics. If you have Corel, you could autotrace the bitmaps and convert them to drawings. Then within Corel, export them as Adobe Illustrator format and you can import those into the Lofter of 3D Studio. If you've got Harvard Graphics for Windows, I believe it comes with an Adobe export DLL. Or, just get the SPC illustration package called Harvard Draw, it can export Adobe Illustrator files, too. (I know, because I wrote that part of Harvard Draw!)