What do you like about the package?

Pretty much all of it although a few bits get you banging your head and shouting at traffic but I do like Modeler as now I've a little more time to learn how to use it properly. There are buttons and things I discover day by day. I also like the LightWave community - everyone helping and sharing (apart from platform bashing as it's what goes out on the screen at the end of the day that matters - my clients don't care what it's done on as long as it's on time, on budget and it's not rubbish). Also I like the way it behaves itself on OSX (no crashes for oooooh ages).

What improvements could be made for you?

A drag and drop (as in simple) type of network renderer would be nice with no fiddly commandline-type stuff to do. A print resolution option in the camera for when I do blowups for production designers. Easier to use particles with fluid dynamics and faster HyperVoxels

Finally, a "Make Cool Character" and a "Make Really Shiny" button so I can spend the weekends at the beach.

What spec machines are you running LightWave on?

I have a G4 dual 1GHz Mac with 1.5 GB of ram with a Nvidia GeForce 4Ti and a teeny little iBook 600Mhz with 640 MB ram.

What plug-ins do you regularly use?

If you mean ones that don't come with the box then I've only just begun to get into them but I'd say Worley's G2, Polk, and Taft; Eki's Plug- and Mod-Pak; from the box I'd be lost without the EPSF loader.

Why would you be lost without the EPSF loader?

I do a lot of logos and quick turn around stuff so I don't have too much time on some things, so I make a lot of models by drawing plan shapes out in Freehand and saving them as EPSF files and extruding and bevelling out the shapes.

As far as you're concerned, Integrated or Separated? :)

I have no real experience of Integrated. I just did a title with over 100 objects and 40 lights and everything was animated, so it's nice to pop back into the calm of Modeler from the hurly-burly of animating, but being able to animate points and suchlike interactively would also be nice. So I'd have to say that I'd like the option to integrate (the phrase along the lines of "cake and eat it" springs to mind).

Do you miss the camaraderie of an office environment working from home?

I freelance two days a week for a CBBC digital programme so I'm in the BBC quite often and I always drop in to see my old friends and have a coffee or a few beers. So I don't miss it too much, I guess - the pros outweigh the cons and if I need an opinion then there are people just an email away.

Do you have lots of discipline?

Only when I've been really naughty and nanny Spanky makes me sorry... D'Oh! I shouldn't have said that. I have to be or I'd get swamped especially all the rubbish things like tax forms you just have to force yourself to sort it. On the work front I am randomly disciplined depending on how looming the deadline is.

What are you working on at the moment?

I'm currently working on a series in which teams of children create virtual creatures which then compete over various challenges and onto the next round and the championship.