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I do not think you have to be an expert with XSI or Carrara but you should be able to use the bones, modeling and morhping features of both Carrara and XSI if you are going to post that XSI has a far better modeling and rigging than Carrara even if it is only an opinion. Demonstrate how you decided this to be true. Can you use the the bones and morphing in either XSI or Carrara or are you just being led by blind faith? As of now I think you can see why I called you out. Perhaps I should not have. It was nothing personal. I have done this in hopes that the forums are not flooded with Maya and XSI wannabees but true XSI , Carrara and Maya users who can demonstrate the difference for us. I hope you can appreciate that.
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I'm one of the few people to have constructed a complex rig in Carrara. You can see it here:
http://forums.polyloop.net/showthrea...ight=character
As far as XSI is concerned, I've merely been evaluating it. I'll post some "screenshots" later (when I get home) but I will tell you that Carrara has nothing on XSI. Rigging and animating is LIGHTYEARS ahead of Carrara. For example, I worked through a tutorial on Edharris.com where a set of "muscle" nulls could be created to flex a character's muscles as you animated it. (This is in foundation by the way) It was also possible to automate a realistic breathing effect. I only went through the tutorial partially just to see the effect. Using some info from XSI-blog.com I also created a simple toon stretch effect which impressed me. Something thats NOT possible in Carrara at all.
Ok. Back to the original topic. Who has actually purchased XSI? I looked into a deal for Carrara users on Cinema4D 9.6 XL/Studio and thought it was a joke. $2500 HAHAHAHA! Sorry, but I can buy a new computer and XSI with money left over for that.
For those looking into adding XSI to their toolset, I'd suggest buying from Sharbor. I've purchased from them in the past and they have an excellent deal. Only $369 for XSI foundation. And you can purchase the DVD tutorials for ~$50. I'd recommend taking a look at the digital-tutor video series if you buy XSI. Excellent series.