I agree with Nomuse about Carrara. Eovia really did have a great thing with Version 3. It was my opinion that focusing on the animation tools for version 4 was a bit of a mistake. Anyone who is serious about animating would consider one of the higher end apps. Having having seen the new Modo toolset for version 201, and a price of about 800 dollars for an integrated modeller/UV editor/unlimited node renderer I am honestly tempted to take the jump. Many of the middle end apps (Strata, Truespace) on the market are starting to look very overpriced.