i usually make my figures with wings 3d sometimes i use amorphium 3 and hexagon to help out. then i rig everything in poser 8 and then do some animation there and rendering there. i find poser is much easier for rigging stuff than carrara 6 pro. i like naming all my materials in wings 3d it makes it easier for the rigging in poser. carrara 6 pro has more gimmicks i just can't seem to get them to work as well as poser. i can't get the modeling stuff to work as well in carrara as i can in wings 3d. then sometimes i will do some texturing and scenes and animation in carrara. i really like the work flo in the story board in carrara but still i find poser and daz do nice things too. i often bring my figures into daz and bryce too and find that thay have little things that work nice too. here's a youtube where i used some of my own characters mostley without carrara http://www.youtube.com/charliexxxmc#p/u this one the animation and rigging was mostly carrara. and this one it was a mix of a lot of things but a lot was carrara. http://www.youtube.com/charliexxxmc#p/u/6/_0V1sXgNTBg.

Computer Art by Charles McChesney