If you're happy with the Poser-Vue-Bryce Pipeline then, no. If you sometimes feel like you're straining at certain creative limitations then Lightwave can offer you: A proffessional level modeler and animation layout. Before anybody gets mad about the "proffessional" remark, what I mean is that it really lets you get into super detail when it comes to editing camras, materials, motion curves, all aspects. Yes, proffessional work is being done with the aforementioned apps too. Particles, motion dynamics, scripting, etc. It's serious but fun too. I've had Poser 6 for several hours now and it's quite a good improvement. So far, getting Poser characters into LW has been a bit of work. I still wish CL would have helped the pipeline in this direction more than it currently has. Lightwave is great for animation and asset creation.