I just jumped here over from another thread, where a fellow Renderosity  member has just offered his latest freebie - and he only uses Poser Artist on a much older computer.    There will still be folks who have little or no choice but to keep using the old Poser version  (pre-Poser 5) which their computers can cope with. 

However, after viewing the discussion about Poser Figure Artist over at the Content Paradise forums, and reading the comparative specs over at the E-Frontier website, I think PFA is very much like Poser 4, except that it doesn't export to 3D, doesn't offer animation capabilities, and doesn't have the fancy stuff like dynamic cloth / dynamic hair, and face room.  If someone just wanted to render 2D digital pictures using 3rd-party 3D content, PFA can do it.  Uses PZ3s and PZZs as well.

When I first started out using Poser Artist 3-4 years ago, I did so without the intention to produce animation.  I had zero clue about modelling , morphs, scripts etc etc.  I just wanted to dump out 2D versions of the 3D scenes I had assembled inside the software.   So, I really think Poser Figure Artist is exactly what I would have used Poser Artist for in those days.  What's more it uses up-to-date 3D content, using its up-to-date rendering engine.

But this does not solve the individual User's problem of needing a more up-to-date machine.

 

Eternal Hobbyist