Carrara and others are fine for making renders to upload on galleries here. No one here is uploading renders from the work they've done at ILM or PIXAR. And you have no renders here. You're not even trying.

Agreed, and I would add animations. I use Carrara Pro 8.5 on a daily basis for short animations, and don't feel deprived at all. Most actions have become second nature, and the bottom line is seamless support of the massive amount of Poser format content out there. Here is a one minute Carrara animation that some folks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3oyjgMk4I