Attached Link: http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/lw-gallery/thumbnails.php?album=14

Maybe I'll hear it from Amapi NURBS users but I thought nurbs were sort of old school and that most people were modelling using polygons and sub-d these days? Lightwave has a polygon/sub-d modeller so in theory anything you could do with it you could do with Carrara's vertex modeller (albeit somewhat more slowly since the vertex modeller is missing some advanced features and lightwave also has lots of free third-party modeling plug-ins to make your life easier). I've seen lots of great cars done with lightwave (I've attached a URL with some examples). If you search on "lightwave car tutorials" at google you get things like: http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/modeling/car/ Here's one that was done with c4d (which also has a polygon modeler with sub-d): http://www.maxoncomputer.com/images/gallery/h_sl500.jpg For movies these days it often seems like they first make a little physical real-world model and then do a fancy 3d trace on the model rather than trying to create the model by hand completely in the computer. I think similar things are happening with animation like the amazing motion capture work done for Gollum in LOTR.