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Michael, I almost decided to switch to Lightwave 3D when it was available for Windows because I wanted some effects that Animation: Master doesn't offer. I do mostly the type of stuff that you would see in Babylon 5 , Star Trek or Star Wars. However, since it is a polygon-based modeling system, it cannot even come close to producing the type of organics that AM does, and IMHO, I would never recommend it to anyone as a first choice that wanted to do realistic animations of the human body and internal organs. Even polygon systems costing thousands of dollars can't compare to a good spline-based system. There are a few AM users that actually create models in AM, export them as .DXF, and sell them to users of $10,000+ animation systems, because modeling with splines is much easier and faster than getting the same smooth results with polygons. The new version of AM, due out by the end of March will make it the most powerful and versatile animation package on the market for under $1000, and considerably better than packages costing much more. Michael S. Flynn