On the contrary, I pick on Firefly because I do not like great thick black lines fucking up a simple flat plane of polygons in a scene with one light.  I do not like sharp polygon lines appearing in dynamic cloth simulations because phong/smooth shading inexplicably fails to work.  Maybe this kind of thing will get fixed "eventually", but it's enough to make me switch to different software.  Photo-realism is not a big priority for me, but work that doesn't look like shit is.

As for whether C4D can render human figure studies well - I don't pretend this example is all that incredibly praise-worthy, but make your own judgment.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1503999
*nudity

Not saying that example is especially superior to Poser's output (although, imho, the shadowing is much better than anything I ever got out of Poser) but - woo, guess what, I didn't have to postwork evil shadow map incorrect offset or the like.

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