My 3D work

saiyan slayer used to have the program they used worth over $1,000 and i think he lost it.

Well I actually read somewhere that they did used Maya for Final Fantasy Advent Children...
Anyhow, all these are pretty much the same in terms of HQ production:
Maya, 3Ds Max, XSI

All three of them can make animations of the same quality, all of them have unbelievably awesome and hyper-realistic renderer implemented in them called Mental Ray...

But also it first all depends on artist and then on the software...
there are many other great 3D softwares, but I would separate those 3 as the best and as the industry standards...

Luffy, looking forward to your real, whenever you do it post it here I really love to discuss on 3D design as it is one of the best creative things you can do on PC probably the best one....AND THEN programming(why? cause IT IS BORING TO LEARN...and 3D is both interesting to learn and to practice )