I use anim8tor to build all my models and props. I have written back and forth with the creator and he is a heck of a guy. Anim8tor has a great manual in pdf, its learning curve is pretty smooth and with each new release it gets more powerfull. It has a huge user base several forums and lots of tutorials. If you have played with my free mech you can see that it works just fine for figure construction. In fact it has a great system for making full animations and scenes. Anim8tor is the only 3d software I use besides zbrush. I use zbrush to do organic forms like morphs for V3. I tryed Max, Bryce, and several others and frankly the learning curves were too steep for me. I am soon to do several anim8tor tutorials specificly to clarify the simplest way (for me) to create full Poser characters. Wings is good stuff, if anim8tor was not around, it is the one I would most definately use instead.