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For character animation, there's a lot that Max can do that Carrara won't.  Aside from pure rendering optimizations (which one may or may not utilize), there's things like morph-driven textures (allowing you to do such things as change to a custom bump map automatically when certain morphs are dialed in), adding to the realism of expressions, etc.  I could go on if you like.

While all of the above is true, before you go on thinking I'm clueles about max, I need to clarify that my question to Operaguy was within the scope of specific items that he was interested in, and not a comparison of Max Vs. Cararra. Operaguy is interested in non-photorealistic animations made with use of poser content, and not full featured use of Max's abilities, AFAIK. So, within scope of his interests, I was curious where Cararra fell short.

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