Or you can buy Softimage XSI for $495 -- and the advanced version for $295, if you're a student. "I am looking for a software program that can make; obj, 3DS files, and/or other, so I can group them, boning, so then when I import into poser, I wouldn't have to do all that." XSI is considered to be a very good modeller. Lightwave is very much so-- I think I've heard that the DAZ people use LW to make their models-- but both are subdivision surface modellers. Poser's greatest limitation is that its strictly a mesh application-- which means that if you need local detail, or smoothness, you have to increase the polygon count enormously, compared with how you'd do it in Lightwave, 3DS or XSI I don't think that any other boning system exports to Poser. There are some custom Poser utilities, but if you do your character rigging or grouping in Lightwave, 3DS, or XSI, I don't think you'll have an easy time exporting the rig.