I have a friend in her early 30's compared to my 60's who is a brilliant artist and has a masters in IT and worked in the field before she came here. She wants to start doing character modeling and animation and possibly work with Vue xStream. Any suggestions on whether she should get Maya, Cinema 4D or 3D Max? The only one of the three I used in the past was Cinema 4D and not for character animation. They are familiar with Poser but she wants to create more of her own.

She wants a program strong in character model creation and animation.

Any ideas from people using those programs and links would be much appreciated. friday I will show them the forums on renderosity.

Thanks for this help in advance.