I am a freshman student using A:M in my animations class. I have also bought the product as I think it's a very easy program to use. That is, when you get used to it. I am a novice animator but I believe my skills have gotten better since I've started. I use v15.0 while we're using v13.0 in class. Not much of a difference (atleast, from what I can interpret), but I guess v15 has more a a different feel to it. Not sure why. Anyways, I'm glad to be using it and I can't wait to see what it can do for me. ^-^