I know quite a few of the Poser merchants use Truespace and Wings to develop their products and Wings is a free program. Carrara is good all around program and if it weren't for the big jump in price from 3 to 4 I would recommend it. In the market today I consider it like Real Estate - overpriced. I think you can now get much more bang for the buck. Take for instance that Lightwave offer. Lightwave sells for $1500 and Vue for $600. That's $2,100 worth of software for $800. Than there is SoftImage SXI that is used by movie studios to produce their special effects and it costs less then Carrara. That just blew the top of the 3d industry when that happened. Cinema's price has dropped but still is up their. TrueSpace is about the same price as Carrara but they are always having offers that are much lower then the retail price because they need to compete with the price drops of serious apps. Eleven Emmys is nothing to shake off. If you are investing you have to ask yourself where are you now and where are you going. If you want to go pro then go with the pro's don't go hobby and listen to my app can do everything those other apps can do. Yeah right. Then why haven't the studios used your app in building their films? Why haven't your app won Emmy's? Why... And as someone has pointed out before it takes more than one app.