Hey Tunesy. I cant speak about Lightwave but I can about C4D. As for me it works brilliantly in both rendering and modeling a modeler is still a personal tool that has to like you back. As for poser there is a free plugin that imports poser characters but it only does stills. However Curiouslabs just announced a pluggin that imports complete poser animations into C4D: "BodyStudio 2.5 for Cinema 4d Now Available! Software Allows Poser 5 Content to be Incorporated with CINEMA 4D Reiss Studio, in cooperation with Curious Labs has developed and released BodyStudio 2.5 for Windows. BodyStudio seamlessly integrates Poser 3D character animation technology into MAXON CINEMA 4D. This innovative plug-in software allows Poser users to easily render and playback Poser animations directly inside of CINEMA 4D. Artists that work with 3D software will notice the many improvements that have been made from the original version of the popular Pro Pack plug-in for CINEMA 4D. For a limited time, BodyStudio is available at the introductory price of $179.00" Hope this helps some. Marco.