Here's what I've been working on for the past few weeks (amongst other things) in Carrara Pro 4.1.1.

Here's the test render:

and the one where there's bones and such and she's posed:

Carrara was used for everything in this, modeling, shading, creating base images for UV mapping, etc...

Interested in any comments. Will be creating a short animation with this character in the coming weeks.

mike r