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What I'm trying to say is that few people seriously involved in 3DS are using it in the design PROCESS, or as a tool to THEMSELVES create a work that is an end unto itself. Often, designers of architecture either outsource the animation work to others, or do it only after the fact to show a client. If such work is outsourced, then the people doing the animation aren't designing the architecture, they're designing the animation for another's architecture (which is an art in itself, don't get me worng). If the animation is done in-house after the fact, then the animation wasn't an end in itself, or intgral with the design process. On the other hand, those who create animated architecture for CD rom games and the like, are often concentrating on the game, and the architecture is mere background in their minnds, for the game itself is their work. Often 2D illustrators create the backdrop pastiche, while the CG animators spend their time trying to make those freehand illustrations look like that in 3D in the game. My point is that with the amount of architectural design there is out there in various disciplines, there's room for a serious animator who can create architectural design right on the computer ass part of the animation; either to be used as inspiration in the design process, or as serious arhcitectural design to live in movies, VR, or games. With the other disciplines doing their things, there's room for such architectural design work as a field in itself. My point was also that few people use the computer as a tool to create the architectural work in the first place, often it's an animator doing thier thing on another's artwork in the case of architecture. Their are, of course those that do, but they seem rare. Hope this is a little clearer, and I didn't come across differently than I intended! -jk