We use Cinema 4D for recreating UK historical sites and making historically based models - like furnitutre for sale here. This is a full time job that was meant to be part time! Why C4D? Simple; we played around with demos of other applications and C4D was the interface we prefered. Well, Pete, our modeler prefered it to be more precise. I could have gone with Lightwave (I deal with light and texture) but Pete is more icon orientated so C4D was the answer for what we could affored. Neither of us are trained in this art, we just drifted towards it. We'd both performed real-time CGI puppets for the Jim Henson Company and I've directed animation for them, but we'd only played around a little with Poser and Bryce before embarking on this madness. What we do struggle with in C4D is keeping the polygon count down when it's converted to .obj's. Not really knowing the maths behind it - even though I've had it explained to me - we can't seem to avoid this. Doesn't help using too many booleans! I think it comes down to what you feel comfortable with, what time you have to learn it and the cost. C4D is great for us, but maybe useless to someone else.

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