If you really want genuine power check out Caligari trueSpace7.51
It's on sale at 50 percent off today and tomorrow.

Here's the sale page:

http://www.caligari.com/store/special/Labor07.html

Product Comparison page:

http://www.caligari.com/products/trueSpace/ts75/Brochure/Comparison_tables.asp?Cate=BProducts&SubCate=ComparisonTables

And a couple of Boning and Modeling pages:

http://www.caligari.com/products/trueSpace/ts7/Brochure/animation.asp?Cate=BAnimation

http://www.caligari.com/products/trueSpace/ts7/Brochure/modeling.asp?Cate=BModeling_polyhedra

This new product is so powerful it will amaze you. I have it and would never switch to anything else for high-end modeling, vray rendering, interactive online scene development, you name it, this does it all very well.

- 3dvisuals dude