@ fuaho - the latest version of the Green brier plugin does a sort of auto-skinning thing, but as mentioned somewhere on the site, some tweaking is necessary. As long as I'd have to tweak, I might as well do the whole thing by hand. The more I practice it the easier it becomes, and as mentioned the layout and density of the mesh determine how easy or difficult the task may be.

@ stewer - I don't recall seeing an angle of view in Poser. How would you enter / calculate the correct value?