So, Messiah Studios is having a pretty huge sale on their rendering software. Don't know how many people who read this render much, but they are selling their $500 software package for $10, and the $1200 one for $40, so that puts it right in the middle of impulse buy territory (at least for me). They are selling it at that price until a certain number of folks buy it, or if they don't, they refund everyone. I have no idea if this is a good set of software or not, but it'd be nice to try anyway.

Here's the URL for anyone that is interested:

http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/shop.html