I bought Digit Magazine, october issue to try Carrara Studio v1,1. It's a full version without any limitation and without any bug. The documentation is in PDF format and you can find many tutorials here and at 3D Communes. You'll find a lot of similiarities with Poser cause both came from MetaCreations a couple of years ago. I love it and it is really for newbies. Take a look at the company, it's eovia.com.