What about Vue d'Esprit4 with or without Mover 4?

Or maybe even the latest come out Vue 4 Professional?

Vue d'Esprit 4 is a inexpensive Landscape and scenery generator. Very easy to learn and to use. It contains vegetation (never two of the same species are the same). It includes already Mover for animation.

Mover 4 is an Extra to purchase "plugin". It allows to import fully animated Poser scenes.

Please have a look and dowwnload a Demo (click Vue d'Esprit 4) and read all the pages to see what it can do.
e-onsoftware.com

Vu ed'Esprit is also available here at Renderosity's Marketplace for a special price for students.

You may want to have a look at this site with lots of animations done with Vue d'Esprit 4 and Vue d'Esprit 4/Mover 4:
http://www.belino.net/

You may also see still images created with it at the Vue gallery here at Renderosity or at my personal Homepage (click the link).

tutorials for beginners

Good luck!

Guitta