Modo's price increased recently when The Foundry took over. Lightwave is now a better option, although they both have strengths and weaknesses. Game designers

Modo's price increased recently when The Foundry took over. Lightwave is now a better option, although they both have strengths and weaknesses. Game designers use a range of tools, so it's a hard sell to convince people to stick with one suite. But it is Autodesk, they play hard. iClone is starting to get seriously interesting for the Indy scene. It's not a modeller, but it's no longer a toy. Their marketing department overdoes the "50% off for one week only" thing, which put me off initially, but the application is good. The direct puppet feature is cool. The holy grail might be lip syncing, and is getting better but nobody has an easy solution for that yet. iClone's focus is low-poly so works well with export to Unreal (in theory, I haven't done it yet).