CompuServe Messages

Perhaps I should explain why I posted this. When I was at school, I got a chance to look at a lot of different packages, including Topas, Lightwave, Imagine, Caligari, Playmation, Sculpt, Stratavision, Infini-D, Swivel, and Wavefront. I chose to go with 3DS, and have been more productive and done better work w/3DS than with the other packages. In fact, it was my first 3DS animation that got me my current job. Some of my 'aquaintences' who use Lightwave, however, have dismissed 3DS as something not suited to 'professional' (by this, I guess they mean broadcast) work. When we 'discuss' this, things usually end with a statement like "if 3DS is so good, why aren't they using it in seaquest or Babylon 5?" I'm not the type to make some of the broad statements that catagorically denegrate a package that I don't use; as stated above, I've tried both and am much more productive with 3DS than Lightwave. I guess I was just curious if I was the only person out the who tried Lightwave and found it not suited for themselves :-). John Stetzer JWS PS: Sorry if this sounds like I'm venting; it's not intended as such. It's just a question thats been kicking around in my head since an internship a couple of years ago.