This was done in a breeze. I am a born spline modeller (but that was the fault of the old Vertex Modeller, I still have to learn/check out the new one in C3), and it is extremely easy to bevel stuff. This was imported text and a star, bevelled and rendered in C3 to quick test caustics.

No Poser hair import though.

Check out the Carrara gallery over here or on the Yahoo Carrara Group, some people are going wild with bevels & hdri.