Caravaggio, I'd say that if you are on a budget and your goal is to use the 3D app mainly for rendering Poser scenes, then Shade is the best bet. Shade Standard doesn't appear to have the modeling flexibility or interface of C4D, but then you pay $695 for the base C4D application (without modules). For that money, you could get the Shade Pro version.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

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