Funny thing is that IMO you might not be able to all that in Poser but with version 5 I've had some results that are creeping closer and closer to true film quality effects. It just takes a lot of patience, same as it would in the "high end" packages. For what it's worth though, having a solid knowledge of Maya totally helped in getting the most out of Poser5. I swear it seems like a lot of the program was directly inspired by Maya. Just my opinion though.