There are a few programs that can do what Poser can do, such as Animation Master and Project Messiah. The difference is that those programs cost a lot more, and also that the content is not pre-made as it is with Poser. For instance, you may have a character and you want to do a scene where the character drinks coffee. In Poser you can get free tables, chairs, coffee cups, etc, in those other programs you would have to model them yourself or convert them from other programs (like Poser or 3D Max). Some of those programs are easier than Poser, Project Messiah is a dream to use, but for it's price, availability of content, and ready made poses, BVH and motion files, Poser is by far your best bet for ease of use. Poser 6 is theoretically able to render proffesional movie quality, but the lack of render farming means you are looking at very long rendering times. My solution is to use Poser for basic animation and setups, and to do the final lighting and animation and rendering in Vue.

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