Wow! This has shaped up to be a pretty amazing list. It has already been briefly mentioned but I just wish to emphasize the technique of changing your document display settings to "Cartoon with Lines" for doing quick animations. If you turn off all of the axis displays on your props etc... you can quickly create some really amazing stuff wit pretty much zero rendering time. The look reminds me of old fashioned Cell Animation. Some of he stuff I've seen using this techique sort of has a look to it as if it were cut right from the original movie "Heavy Metal". I recall how impressed I was when I first learned about this nifty little feature of poser. I think beginners really should give it a whirl. from the tool menu select >display > document style > Cartoon w/lines Then take your eye dropper tool and color the everything in the studio and you are ready to animate.

Hydra