> Quote - Ha changing programs intresreting Brad

Not changing, just expanding.  My ultimate goal has always been animation.  I was just starting to read up on iClone when Daz went free.  I grabbed Daz just because it was free, planning to integrate it into iClone.

But I got a little sidetracked and spent this whole past year playing with Daz (and never got iClone). 

I've played with Carrara for a few hours over the last few days and it's pretty amazing so far.  It can use almost all of the content from Daz and Poser, with better animation AND physics and particle effects. 

Here's an image I threw together in a few minutes during one of the basic lighting tutorials. Render time was 1 minute 32 seconds. Tomorrow I'm going to take the same figure and pose and run it through Reality to see how it compares.  I love Reality, but I don't think I'll ever see an image like this come out of it that quick.