Cheetah3D is truly a great program.

First of all, the program gets updated on the average every other month. Some of the updates actually are more than just point releases and minor bug fixes. They contain some significant improvements and enhancements.

Where Cheetah3D shines is that it comes with 2 renderers. One ray-tracer, and the other is a super-fast path tracer using adaptive sampling techniques, for the fastest results. This is pro-level feature in a $99.- package.

Cheetah3D is a Mac only product. If you are a PC user, this thread is not for you. Stay out.

Cheetah3D has numerous features quite similar to Cinema4D. In a sense it can be considered as Cinema4D's little brother.

The FBX import of Daz/Poser models into Cheetash3D works flawlessly. In 1 situation I had to break down the model in 2 parts for it to import correctly.

Cheetah3D actually handles Daz/Poser contents far better than Carrara does. You don't need to spend days to adjust textures to make them look good, as is the case with Carrara. From this perspective, the overall cost of a project is always a lot less with Cheetah3D than with Carrara.

Below are 2 sample works that I did with Cheetah3D. These are only wips, and by no means represent what Cheetah3D can do, in terms of lighting abilities and rendering quality.

More on Cheetah3D later.