Likes: 1.Good value for money but watch out, prices of high-end software are tumbling. 2. Interface is clear and easy to use. 3. Shaders easy to understand and use. 4. Rendering, fast and versitile. 5. Spline modeller is great for modelling certain objects that would take ages using other methods. Dislikes: 1.Lack of render time displacement mapping. Look at the stuff that's being done with ZBrush and Messiah Studio. 2. Metaballs. What are they there for? 3.Vertex Modeller could do with improving. Lousy selection, loathe the unintuitive 'active plane' method. Hopeless UV editor.