To expand on some of the things that Philip posted. Pierre B. the CEO of N-sided is a professional artist and a master at using Amapi. Quidam is more of a character modeler something that Poser cannot do. Quidam with the carrara plugins is about 1 dollar less than if you had to do a full purchase of Poser6. Quidam will sure aid in creating characters to be use in Carrara or any other application. I'm getting my very soon.