Poser is, for better or worse, a studio app. My definition of 'studio app' is a media development tool which is not reliant on other software to produce final results. SoundForge or Photoshop or Flash MX or Dreamweaver MX would be good examples of other studio apps. Yes, they can work in concert with other applications but for their intended purpose it isn't critical. How efficiently the tools inside the application work is sadly not a valid test for evaluating whether an app is a studio app or not. Poser 1-5 retains the GUI and paradigm of Kai Krause and friends, which was as organic and non-programmatical as possible. As an efficient production tool, Poser suffers compared to the real-world composition needs answered in modeler/renderers like Vue which behave more like OOP (instancing, for example). Poser does need to reevaluate parts of the UI paradigm it inherited. But I've seen enough professional uses of its renderer and animator (USA Today, the Wal-Mart self-check kiosk) to know it has its place in production environments. Is it the best possible renderer for production purposes? No. Is it an adequate tool for producing something original without making additional investments in supporting software? Yes. It was necessary to implement shaders and collision detection to keep up with reasonable expectations, and for the price you can't complain. Something better than Phong shading should have been in 4, but 1998-era desktop boxes weren't really up to the task for results you'd see in a reasonable amount of time. Desktop computers have changed, and the resources pro grade animation requires are a lot closer to the average user's machine. It's realistic for software to keep up. Adding vector editing to Photoshop is feature-itis because it's beyond the needs the application addresses. Not to bash DAZ|Studio, but it is a poser/renderer for which you will have to purchase the animation suite and other features piecemeal. This is NOT a studio app unless you consider still renders an acceptable limit to an application WHICH ALREADY INCLUDES the mechanics of organic form animation in it and DAZ knows this.