@broozar

I have decided skip the Carrara/Bryce/Hexagon after
reading your post and other posts on this in GG-forums
(I have a TGEA license also).

I will go with those tools instead:

trueSpace 7.5 for the animation using BHV (already owns a license)
Silo2 for modelling
ZBrush 3 for texturing
Blender for getting all exported to DTS

Thanks for you advice
Cheers
Roland