Yes, Wings and Blender are great options as well!  Animator seemed fast to learn too!  I Love the fact that they are FREE!  FREE is GOOD!  True on Poser, a very worthy tool to have.  Luckily version 5 is free for a few days!  Right after I paid like $279.00 for Poser 6 (sigh).  Yes I wish Daz3D Studio would go farther....Another thing I have heard of is E-frontier's Shade works for making clothes...I have it but haven't learned a thing about it yet.

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