Max and Maya are fine but l am inquisitive to know if any one is working in other softwares?

Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Houdini. there are tons of other solution! Modo, Truespace.

Blender, the Open Source software, got its start as the in-house software for an Amsterdam animation company. It is actually had more done with it than just the demonstration project (http://bigbuckbunny.org ).

The problem with answering ur question of course is so much of the development is being done in UNIX/GNU Linux because that makes it so straightforward & easy to access the power of networks. And of course, the real problem with talking about UNIX-derived Operating Systems is that since especially the most well-heeled users tend to use it for special purposes, the software u would be talking about is not necessarily going to be advertised or discussed around consumers. There r a lot of alternatives out there. And like any type of software, some of the ''alternatives'' r actually the same programs with different names. If u want to follow it that closely u can sort it out, but otherwise, the answer is simply yes.