Oh I get it alright, its actually a bad analogy because if you want to compare prices try comparing it to a $4,000 program like Max 9 not a $900.00 program light LW...try a different car.

Xerxes002, I think Carrara is a close second to LW and in my book...way better than Vue.  My point is and has always been that i have not seen the type of human realism in Carrara that I have seen in LW especially by one of the top rated artist at CGtalk.  I've played around with his character Janna and she's way more realistic than anything I have seen or done myself in Carrara...plain and simple....  I'm just sharing the info with fellow Carrara artists...what you do with the info is up to you.  If you happy with Carrara cool, if not and you think that LW offers better more realistic tools for making realistic humans...there ya go!

I'm holding on the Hex, because so far the modeling portion of LW...though more powerful is not as easy as Hex.  The rendering and lighting in LW IMHO is better.

Good point by the way on the 3d.sk, but the textures dont look very detailed...the detail comes from the modeling in Zbrush (displacement maps)...maybe the face is modeled after one of the 3d.sk girls.