I find Poser's dials are much easier to work with than the tools offered by Lightwave. As far as figure creation, Poser isn't a modeling tool. If you really want something from scratch you'll need to model it yourself. However, there is a wealth of content available for Poser, and much of it is quite customizable. Realistic figures, cartoon figures, fantasy figures, sci-fi, monsters, and aliens and demons and dragons, all are available. Poser can do some great renders - if you know what you're doing. It's animation of characters works well but it doesn't have the sophistication that apps like Lightwave do. A number of people around here use Poser for working with the figures and then import the Poser files into Lightwave, C4D, Carrara or other apps for rendering.

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