"If the rumors are true that P6 is 3 years behind the curve, render-wise, then they may have had no choice but to use Max" Well, it's a relatively short clip. I'm sure Poser could have handled it just fine, even without network rendering, on a decent box. I've rendered much longer animations with Firefly/P6 in acceptable time. The quality of the 3ds/Brazil renderer is superb though (I've used it myself), and it's definitely faster than Firefly when it comes to raytracing and shadow map creation. So hey, if EF doesn't care, then neither do I. ;-P

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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.