Oh yeah, C4D is great... I played around with it a while back, in particular BP and the sketch and toon module. I think it was R10 that I tried. Just a really user friendly 3D suite, and incredibly nice help features.

If I had the cash for it, C4D would be my mid-high end app of choice. Anyway, my penny jar is getting kind of full, maybe eventually I'll be able to get it but only in Galactus years! Should have been less impatient and continued saving but opted instead for Carrara which I like but frankly the documentation is incomplete and Daz doesn't really seem to dedicate much attention to their secondary software stable but rather concentrates on content. Need to upgrade my computer to a more contemporary Mac before I even think about software. The straight out of the box renderer and scene functionality in C4D is indeed very nice, I can only imagine that more current versions are that much better.