To make an animation with Poser in anything like a reasonable timespan, you have to have some kind of distributed rendering. My preference is to use Vue Infinite, and P6 is the animation system. An option to use just Poser would be to set up several systems, each with a Poser install and matching runtimes, and break the render into discreet sections, letting each machine chew on its share of the scene. Something that tends to get missed is the -other- uses a rendergarden can be put to. This is my current beast; all assembled by me mostly from saved upgrade components. 5 of the seven are Athlon 64's; one an old socket 754 from 3 upgrades ago, a 3200+ 939 that was my last mobo and chip, and the top 3 boxes are all 64-3000+'s bought since the price war started (you can get a retail boxed A64 3000+ 939 for $55 at newegg: an Asus A8V-VM micro atx board with onboard video for $54), the other 2 are old Athlon XP's. The 4 socket 939 boxes run WinXP, so that they can do distributed rendering for After Effects 7. So just by choosing carefully, you have a system that can either do production or post production distributed rendering. Plus it's wonderful on long winter nights..... :P