Well, I should be more familiar with Cinema, seeing I come from Rhino, but its modelling tools leave stuff to be desired. OTOH, maybe I don't know Max, but Cinema has some things in its workflow that leave Max standing. For instance, if you boolean two meshes, you can leave it like that and change the meshes to your heart's content, and finally fix it when you're completely satisfied. It's not like the history in Max. I was able to find out commands in Cinema just like in Bryce. (Which is a double-edged comment, ain't it? :-)) OTTH, if you can texture and light in Bryce, the same things in Cinema will be easy. Yes, the lights have more options, but they are not cryptic or difficult to adjust. Texturing channels have some different results, but they are easy.

-- erlik