"But be prepared, the secret of Pixar's movies is not their software but their scripts and artists (not to mention their killer team of shading and lighting TDs)." Exactly. People are often consumed with what software a particular studio used to produce a work, as if talent played no role. LOL. ;-) To be quite honest, the same kind of movie can be made in ANY of the big name applications... Maya, 3DsMax, Lightwave, XSI, and even C4D. The secret to Pixar's amazing success is the talented team working behind the software, and the "tricks" they used to get the results the did.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.