Comic Life for Windows

Plasq finally made a Windows version of its sexy comic creation software, Comic Life. I'll have to inspect the trial version. If it's better than my limited Comic Book Creator, I'll go for it....

EDIT: Comic Life allows you to customize your own page templates, a feature that Comic Book Creator does not have. It also has a greater variety of vectorized speech balloons, including thought bubbles... This looks promising.

Another free modeling app

It looks like CB Model Pro operates on the same relatively easy system that Poser magnets  and DAZ D-Forms do, only with more sophistication. Perhaps this is the free modeling app that I've been looking for -- one that allows me to make organic and industrial shapes relatively quickly?

Digital shadows are the bane of my existence.

Turn shadows on on main light. Select "raytraced." Soften by 10%. Something good should happen.