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Brandon: As a longtime animator and CAD specialist, I realize that the monetary amounts I offered as payment in my post for meshes is below scale. I've worked hard on many imaging, animation, CAD and review assignments and was fairly compensated for my efforts. If you noticed, I prefaced my post with a statement similar to: "If you have meshes or images from past projects laying around in your dust bin…" Often I've resold images that I generated in Topas two or three times, ones that I thought would only have a value for the original project. A $50 to $100 arrow out of the blue for work I did 10 years ago is found money. I was not asking that someone create a specific mesh or image for hire for my needs… Work to specification deserves scale and if I need to hire on an animator or graphic artist to complete a project, I pay them as to what I would feel that I would charge for doing the project myself. In this particular instance, I don't have the time to generate the meshes or images that I need myself and thusly posted the message to see if anyone in the 3DS community had something laying around "in the dust bin." As far as your observation of my contribution "making the industry grow" I feel I have done a small bit in promoting Autodesk's fine products to the industry and public at large. I authored and reviewed the first articles on 3D Studio for Byte Magazine in 1991. I was a true Topas advocate and devotee for years prior to Autodesk releasing 3DSr1, so I looked at 3DSr1 with a "real hairy eyeball". It was one of the few products that I've ever given a five star rating in any of my reviews. In other reviews, I examined AutoShade with the RenderMan extensions and realtime AutoCAD animation adapters from Matrox and SGI. Autodesk included some of my reviews in their handout kits for 3D Studio at Comdex, NCGA Chicago and mailout literature requests. Hopefully, my efforts have helped in some small way give 3D Studio a base following. It's a great product and I continue to tout it as the animation software all others should try to measure up to. – Greg Loveria