I doubt this is any competition to Poser at all. It has one huge disadvantage when compared to Poser, that is content. For me that's Poser strongest selling points, it comes with lots of characters, clothes and hair, things I'm not good at designing at all. Besides that there's tons of ready to be used stuff free and for sale for Poser. Project Messiah is missing that big time. I rather spent the $299 on a lot of Poser content and add ons. Unfortunally I don't have $299 laying around somewhere.

Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722

Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(

Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk