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Yes indeed. I can't afford (wouldn't buy it if I could) Max or Maya, so I just use Blender. Thank you very much for the compliments :D You also have a lot of great models :D

I use a few mid-range apps - Silo, 3D Coat and Vue. I trained in Maya, but for all the bells and whistles, I find it's rendering limited. Can't do lights without jumping through hoops. AND it has some funkiness to it. For instance, it has options for customized XYZ coordinates. It took me a week to figure out why sliding an object across a plane would result in it being above or below the plane. Worst of all is that despite Max and Maya being Autodesk products, there's no direct conversion. I don't like being cornered like that. Nope, I have EDU versions, but I only use them to check my stuff for compatibility. I like Blender... That is to say, I like what other people can do with Blender! I can't get my head around all the hot keys. I use hot keys in my apps, but that's because I was able to first use the menu and the menu reminds me of the hot keys. For me, Silo has enough hard surface tools and the projection material tools suits my style. I end up painting displacement in 3D Coat, which also lets me know when my normals are reversed and then I render in Vue. It's OK, but I'm still not satisfied with the render quality. But, you can pull a scene together in a default outdoor lighting environment and that works for me. 3D Coat is a voxel sculpting app, so it has a lot more potential for organic sculpting than I have harnessed so far. I CAN sculpt, but what am I going to do with a hi-poly model, aside from use its displacement and normal maps on low poly models? Thanks for the compliment on my models. :-)

Haha! I love Blender... I'm like a year and 3 months into it, and I know just about EVERY hot key there is in it... LOL! It's a lot of fun, and the hot keys make big projects go by like lightning... I couldn't imagine life without hot keys XD

Thanks!

Thanks Mike! And yes, I know... I was hoping to gt that here :)