HaHa!!... I can imagine that ... Carrara render would be almost instanteous, perhaps just under a minute in full raytrace
I`ll post a rundown of what Carrara can do and what you are all missing! but I still use anim8or for the modelling as its far easier than Carrara`s modelling room which is awful.
I provided Aric & EricAug with Carrara FOC you too,can get it at animanon.com if you just follow some simple rules....participate
just some of its assets Caustics,AO, animated Textures, Displacement mapping, gels, lightcones, aura, fast rendering, multi threading, render node(render farm) import 3ds,obj etc (not anim8or) use bvh data the pros for it on and on.
The program really is just another tool , that you should have in your essentials!
take a look here
http://www.animanon.com/Forum/index.php?topic=1257.0 a couple of issues of the Carrara Magazine
our own headwax is featured in one of them