Wow! Been away for a while now but I found out about this today and Im impressed. Im a little concerned about the render times but the results are stunning.

Seems like now it will be a lot easier to set-up things and not fiddle endlessly to get just the looks I want, be it realism, comics or whatever tickles your creativity. Im not sure artisically that is such a good thing...I.e It's getting closer to turning into a make art button and I do like a challenge instead of point and click. Not that Im complaing at all. It's a trade off and a good one I think. Less time involved setting up scenes more time rendering. I'll take that deal anyday because it means It will free up time to get some realworld things done instead of tedious fiddling and lots of hair pulling. Time is money and I don't have much of either these days so I need to be efficent. P8 looks very effecient :)

I have to say Im really impressed that much work went into it. I was sort of expecting minor changes but this looks big. The rendering engine finally looks impressive and so does the UI.
The whole parameter control thing that DR and others mentioned and the improvements to rigging is huge and something I hoped they could do without running into compatibility issues.
The content looks pretty impressive too coming with extensive morphs and texture variety right out of the box. Something they should have done a long time ago for thier base figures.

I for one would like to thank all who took the time to post info about this and the whole team in general. Although I doubt I'll have the money or time to purchase it right off the bat Im surly looking forward to it when I can get around to it. Im sold. Impressive work.

Sorry if Im sounding to much like a fan but I think the people who work on this stuff don't get enough credit but they really deserve it.  It's also nice to recieve a complement every now and then instead of piss and moan all the time which gets old faster than conversations about religon & politics. Oh shit did I mention them...Sorry!!!