After seeing 3-D art in several websites I decided to try to find out how it was made.  One
of the programs talked about was something called Poser.  So I looked in Amazon.com
to see if they had it. They had something called Poser 5 and it seemed fairly cheap,
around $150, so I decided to buy it. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out
it could also do animations as well as just still images.  Later on I bought Poser 6.
Skipped Poser 7 and am now using Poser Pro Basic.