***"Quote - "I am talking about art nudes or clothed character studies in fairly simple settings, as opposed to grand architecture with GI and a crowd and detailed machines etc. Second, it is not 'merely' a single figure, etc., it is a single figure, or small group, with supurb lighting, skin realism, highly detailed hair that casts shadows and interesting" ***

Depends on what your intended goals ultimately are

ONE Nekkid Poser figure on  simple back drop?? easy if thats enough to please you
its abundantly clear by now that poser is capable of that  much at least.

but the reason one might find a dearth of such***"Intimate"***
renders posted in the Cinema/MAX/MAYA gallery is
Due to the fact that those programs are capable  of and intended for rendering
much more.

Example 1): I rendered  this "simple" scene "The Gardener"
Last year. SIX  DAZ M2 Figures at around 25,000 polys each
wearing full body suits for  total of 12 figures in scene.

RDL7 Set pieces from Sanctumart
very high quality but INFAMOUS for there ultra poly count and utra hires texture sets. add the piece way in the back from stonemason.
Cinema reported this scene at well over one **MILLION ** polygons.
the online gallery version of this scene took a little over and hour to render

the 10 FOOT by 5 FOOT wall mural version that was printed on one piece of roll canvas on a Gandi "Jeti 3000 grand format printer , took over 8 hours to render at actual size.
RENDERING HARDWARE at the time: first generation Apple E-mac 700mhz
with 256 MEGS OF RAM!!

---

When a 3D mesh becomes a righteously defended personification of your personal desires It has become an IDOL and YOU have become its worshipper,slave and servant
-Tain-

---

---

My website

YouTube Channel