"At the school I work, an instructor at one time mentioned he used Poser to do animatics when he worked at Lucasfilm." Oh, there's no doubt... Poser is definitely the best app to use for animatics, where quick mock-ups are necessary. But I know for a fact ILM has never employed Poser in a final cut. I've seen some impressive shorts done with Poser, and even more impressive ones done with DAZ models in other apps.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.