One of the disadvantage of Carrara could be that it doesn't import dynamic hair and clothes, and you need a plugin to import Poser content (except in "Pro" version)... Yet, but I have heard this is changing very soon. And you do need a plugin with Vue to get dynamic hair, thats what Mover does. Softimage is a good deal, but I wouldn't recommend it to work in conjunction with Poser, and its interface, do to the power it does have, is quite a bit more complicated then any of the software you have suggested thus far. Really what you should do is just demo all the software you are interested in, and go with what you find works for you. Brian