Hi Mike!

Good to see you!!
NLA seems like motion mixer on LW, i haven't tried it too much. I think that LW is the best for modeling and texturing (expecially UV map), but the shader tree of carrara it's still the best, all the other shading systems i've tried are not so good. I'm very impressed about modo rendering engine and i think that Carrara need a complete new lifting about render. C4D is complete and powerful but for a reason that i don't understand i can't fall inlove with that app. BTW C6 is an impressive upgrade. When i launch Carrara i feel at home:-)

-TOXE