Quote:Original post by Sol Blue
As for XSI, if it's that modder's version jpetrie is talking about, it has a couple of restrictions -- poly/vertex count limits, I think, and rendering only to a quite small image with watermarks.

Yeah, that poly limit is 64,000 polys. More than enough to work with! Yes, the rendering capabilities are fairly gimped, but are still more than sufficient for learning how to model and animated. You just can't use any ray tracing rendering capabilities.

I highly recommend XSI Mod Tool. I'm "classically" trained with Maya, but have found working with XSI Mod Tool to be pretty damn intuitive as well. Blender's interface is atrocious, but it is incredibly powerful. You could always do your modeling/animating in XSI Mod Tool and your rendering with Blender [wink]