The lighting is uniformly distributed and consistent in both apps, but the softness of EIAS is something I prefer from a art point of view. The images tend to be a little less sterile, somehow. Renderings for the clients needs can be prepared same day out of both apps. However, with lots of shadow and lights EIAS will prevail on a render animation sequence as the faster renderer. Also, since you are rendering images that would require going to poster size prints I'd recommend EIAS over Maxon because of the 16K or is it 32K pixel file resolutions you can bang out in under a half our.
Clients love to print posters of their mechanisms and Industrial size inventions.
FormZ for the Still Raydiozity render and EIAS for the quick object movie output. Inspire 3D Check out Inspire from Newtek. Since this is not directly a formZ question, we thought we would let our users share their thoughts of their favorite animation programs. Thanks for the responses I have been debating about purchasing Inspire, Maxon's GO, EI, or 3D Studio Viz for some time. On the Mac there are many other formats that you can use.