Ive found the gnomon ones a bit of a lottery to be honest in the past, as a friend of mine has a couple, the head modelling using a nurb cylinder was errrrrr....interesting, and a couple of rigging ones as well were a little unorthodox. But that aside the newer stuff looks great especially the matte series and digital sets too.

As for the 3d creative mag, bloody hell, YES!!! Its great as is the 2d one theres always stuff in those to make you want to go a bit better every time!!

Jay