Carrara is an all-purpose modeller/compositor/animation tool/renderer. Bryce does those things too, but it's modelling capabilities are severely limited. It does not do just rendering. IMHO, Bryce (in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing with it, i.e., NOT me... LOL) creates some gorgeous output. But Carrara's renderer has definitely closed the gap compared to its predecessor, RDS. Bryce is extremely good (and some say its primary purpose) is for landscape design. Yes, Carrara includes terrain modelling, but it is severely limited compared to Bryce. If I want to do something that is primarly landscape in nature, I go with Bryce, unless I have Poser importing to do (which I have a hard time with in Bryce), then I use Carrara. I would ask the folks in the Bryce forum exactly everything it can do, because they know the app better than I... I have a real hard time with objects in Bryce (simply because I do not know the app well enough), so I typically use Carrara. I LOVE Bryce landscapes though.... One other thing of note: Carrara has some cool plugins/extensions for it, and more are on the way. I am not aware of any Bryce plugins, except for Elefont which creates text models in Bryce. Anyone know of any others? Anybody else care to chime in and correct me on all my erroneous statements? 8^) HG....