XSI 7 trial available

[Vintage]

http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/

ICE alone makes it worth to have.

ICE greatly improves collaboration between artists and technical directors, allowing them to create custom tools and effects visually, see the results interactively, and do it all without scripting. Effects built or modified in ICE are performance tuned and multi-threaded, so they perform at maximum efficiency across all available processors.

[Kora]

Downloading trial.... ICE indeed intrigues me