Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Options

[*Azarel*]

Do you use any less "traditional" graphics programs? Which? How did you get into the more obscure program? What I mean by less traditional graphics program is, anything other than the same old photoshop, paint shop pro, GIMP, paint, etc. Programs that I feel fall into this category (at least cB-wise) would be Terragen, Terraspace, Bryce, Cinema4d, 3d Studio Max, Open Canvas, Painter Classic, perhaps flash..

Oh, and Joe is a fantastic artist who combines these and photoshop. /shameless plug;

I'm looking to get into flash in the near future; I've tried Terragen before and will probably use it again some time. Also, I've used AutoCAD as well as Rhinoceros3D in a drafting course.

[*mona lisa*]

I've learned the very basics of Flash and would love to learn more since I'v seen some really awesome things produced using Flash. I may get Inkscape, which is a free, open source version of Illustrator. I've thought about trying Terragen and C4D but haven't had the time and I doubt I will now. =\