When I first started using P5 it seemed not to work as well, possibly because I was doing a few things wrong or asking too much of it. Like that professional grade render; I've seen very little qualitative difference with it. When I stick to the Poser render, don't use bump maps, and have only one light activated for shadows (though other lights are in use), it runs fairly quickly. (What's the trick to doing anti-aliasing? I just click the anti-alias button, like for P4.) If you can learn to composite the picture in your head or on a sketch pad, you won't need to have more than one character in the document window at a time, except when characters are in close relationship with each other