or possibly not as good of an artist, like the results you achieve are nothing to do with you... I get that a lot from friends and family :(, used to upset me a bit... Not anymore when I actually sat one of them down in front of one of these programs and said go on then...lets see how easy it is...they ecame frustrated and angry. "If someone wants to build all of their own models, and draw up all of their own textures -- then that's wonderful." lets remember though a true purist would expect you to code the programs before hand too, after all otherwise we have come full circle surely. Or is it a vicious circle LOL. After all a large amount of credit must go to the actual applications themselves. :) If you can achieve fabulous results, they are still valid regardless of the techniques, tools, programs, paper, pencil, camera used to achieve them :)