I think most of you guys are missing the boat by recommending P6 or even P5. What mikebres is looking for is a tool to help his mom draw human and animal figures, not a tool to make final images. Draw, like with pencil, brush, paint, paper, canvas and stuff, you know - traditional, old fashioned, hand made art, not electronic, CG art. Poser Artist (or Poser 4) is propably the best choice for that. It'll allow mikebres' mom to use the millennium generation DAZ figures as electronic artist's posing dummies without a very steep learning curve. Just my opinion...