I just bought a eVga (Nvidia chipset) GTX 260 video card and not only is it amazing for gaming the realtime preview in Poser is great!  I did a quick 600 frame animation with walk cycle and other animation with 1 V3 and a Stonemason prop (Urban Sprawl) and hit the play button and it was in realtime no stuttering frames and all textures displayed properly (including transmapped hair) and I was blown away!   So to get to my point...  I'm thinking about rendering characters and such in realtime preview mode and then doing just a shadow pass and then compositing and honestly that looks pretty good for me!!  It does end up looking like a high end video game and not photoreal but still looks good and the artstyle of it is kinda cool!!

Gerard

The GR00VY GH0ULIE!

You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock n roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair