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hello everybody!
so i spent about 5 years saving up for photoshop(cs3),hexagon(i have 2.2)and carrara(i just got it with cs3) i decided to get them after many years of investigating the career i wanted to focus on while in high school and now i am wondering,do i have the most efficient system for what i wish to accomplish? and what i hope to accomplish is making movies that can rival advent children(of course before AC it was the star wars scenes when they re-released the orginal trilogy with new 3d renders) i have been on photoshop since about version 4 and have used it for cover art for CDs,photo collages and painting and inking my hand sketches and of course web templates.
but the whole 3d thing is new to me. . .i had a buddy who used 3DsMAX and taught me basic box modeling. but with all my recent studies i have found that 3DsMAX is for games,maya for movies/vfx, & softimage for a little of both i just want to know what i have gotten myself into and if im on the right track?
is the daz/eovia software i recently bought(mainly because of MAX and MAYA's list prices-i figured instead of getting the one 3d program i could get PhotoShop,Hex,and Carrara) truly perfect to accomplish stunning movies,and action/drama series? without abandoning realism?

thanks in advance and sorry for the length of the message,im just trying to elaborate on my current situation.


P.S. i was kinda confused with carrara and hexagon,what's the difference and how do they also work together?