What I didn`t understand: Can you just animate and render characters? Or is this a universial animation tool like Cinema 4D?
Cinema is a full 3D render and animation software. You can model, texture, render and animate in it.
Messiah is mainly a animation tool. With a bones system. Plus it has a good renderer. It is not meant for modeling and texturing.
It does the animation job better than Cinema though from what i know. It is specialized at animation needs.