Ft, just so you know, we're all the addicted here., and you are heading that way yourself. Poser with freebie stuff is great, and you have some control over what your characters look like (unless of course, you are Capsces, and are a magnet godess!) After that, you'll expand to buying characters and addons. (Clothes, props, horns, wings, ect.) Then you might want to look into Bryce, or Vue, because with some effort and luck, you'll be able to get poser stuff into them and have your characters in virtual worlds. Course along the way, you'll be compositing your poser stuff with other images in photoshop, or something similar. Then you'll probably either want to make your own characters, and that's when you'll be looking at full 3d packages. You might just plateau at any one of those stages, and much depends on how much free time you have, or if you have a life. ;) It's a hell of a ride, but be prepared at every stage to pull some hair out....

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.