I'm a P5 user also trying to decide between Carrara, Vue and Shade. I want effortless Poser import, the ability to create 3D models easily (and import stock models), and render out something that allows not only photorealism but toon style shading as well. The consensus seems to be that Carrara has it over Vue, but what about Shade? straker

Hey Todd71, I agree it would be great if one vendor could combine all these features. But if you want a character to walk and talk in your animation, isn't the advantage of Poser that it will save you all that step by step keyframing that you would have to do in C? I saw the part about mo-cap in C but unless they offer preset mo-cap files it would be a (huge) expense to do mo-cap independently, you'd have to rig up live actors to capture the data and then you have another mess to contend with. straker

Hi Charles, You mentioned TransPoser, just wondering if you can import an animated Poser file with Mimic audio into Carrara 4? I just joined the forum and am looking at getting Carrara to go with Poser 5. Cheers, Straker