I've been playing with the new major version of Blender: Blender 2.5 Alpha 1. Most of the important changes are to the UI. If you dropped Blender at 2.4 or earlier, I recommend you take a look at this release. The interface is much more reasonable. I am still a fan of the Maya interface (mostly because I spent a lot of time learning that interface), but this new Blender is pretty nice. And free is better than crazy amounts of cash for Maya. Anyways, enough gab here is a Blender render (without textures) of a retro futurist building I have been creating as part of a larger city block. This building was inspired by the work of Dean Motter; mostly: Mr. X.