Let me be honest, AM rocks, as soon as I saw the animations produced I wanted it and like a lot of people searched the net high and low, looked through all the torrents, not a crumb was available. I'm definitely into try before you buy. But the animations I saw spoke for themselves and what won me over was the watching the the animations on Hash's website and seeing the secondary animation capabilities.
I'm at university studying animation, I'm not doing it to get a career as an animator, thats a personal goal but I did discover motion graphics as an area or interest that may make me pursue a career and if what I have seen of AM so far, I would love to use it as a part of my tool set for developing a career in motion graphics.
But my main interest in learning to be an animator is to illustrate my stories and poetry as animations, with AM I feel that I have arrived, so I am looking forward to giving up sleep as a necessity. I'll say this I was more than happy to pay for an awesome piece of software and will be pushing my classmates to get copies for themselves and pushingmy course tutors to let me use it as a tool for my second and third year at university.