I'm afraid I broke his little heart, because I played a lot with the SGIs in my uni these days. LightWave isn t just a tool. For me it s kind of a lifestyle. No other 3D package has such a strong community, where everybody just loves to share with each other. That s why you find so many LightWave Tutorials on the net.
Most beginners are scared of the interface, which almost looks like a game.
And when you get familiar with the interface, when you get into the flow, then you will notice that it all makes sense and this is the only way a 3D program can function properly. See, a pull down-menu may be useful for MSWord, because you need the keyboard for text input. But 3D is different, you rarely type in text. So you do in LightWave. In all other 3D software you have to break your fingers using shortcuts, or you browse the pull down menus for hours.