Just to back you up on SDS thing, Ringo, the main reason I got away from Bryce and Poser were nonexistant ability to subdivide on render time (talking about multiple subdivision of low poly cages here). I just got sick and tired of importing my models for hours and dealing with literally milions of polys in real time to set up a scene (Bryce) and then render itself takes forever (animation was never an option,

)...With all that said, no, Poser and Bryce are never going to be considered as serious animation tools, and yes, as far as I can see, Carrara have that chance, we will see