Besides being a marketing tool it's a great way to start off in the world of Poser because it's free. Daz Studio does animations. It has the D-former tool you can add on that's simular to the Morph Brush and doesn't cost much. It will integrate with Bryce 6 and that's a big plus. The whole thing comes around to one program being all things to all people. I personally wouldn't call it crippled. I'd say they're in the beginning stages of developing the program and it doesn't have as many features as Poser 7 yet. But, it's a great place for a beginer to start and it's free. I use D/S and Poser 7. I've had some problems rigging in P7 and had to revert back to P6. They may have fixed the issue in SR2 I haven't tried it in P7 again. The more you use Poser your going to find that it isn't perfect either and that brings us back to cost again. It's affordable considering what you get. I think you can pull some nice renders out of both programs. I've wasted enough of my own time. Later 

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