Messiah has been around since 1999ish (originally as a plugin for Lightwave), so if that was their plan they certainly work on a very long time scale! Messiah

Messiah has been around since 1999ish (originally as a plugin for Lightwave), so if that was their plan they certainly work on a very long time scale! Messiah is actually pretty great at what it does though it must be getting squeezed a bit by Blender3D with the strides that (totally free) software has made in usability over the last year or so. I do find it a little bit curious that they (pmG) haven't defined what either their goal is or what the timeframe for meeting the goal is. I doubt they are doing anything underhanded, but if the "goal" is not met in whatever the "timeframe" is, it'll be pretty easy for people to make a case that the whole thing was a PR stunt rigged from the start.. of course, then they'd be on the hook for who knows how many refunds, which doesn't come for free.