OT post here, just wanted to say thanks again to odf for the invite. I got the email and have created an account. I'm not sure yet what to do there, or how to navigate the site but I'll figure it out soon enough.

Laurie, your eyes look really good. Well, not yours but Antonia's. Well I'm sure yours are fine too. ;-)
I'm surprised at how much you can do with Poser's morph brush. To me it's like trying to use a monkey wrench to attach a postage stamp to a letter. ;-)
But if you like that, you're going to love 3D Coat, especially if you have a 64 bit computer and especially if you have a powerful Nvidia graphics card. Since it uses CUDA, which is Nvidia's solution for leveraging the GPU for calculations, which is far more powerful than a CPU for many things.
I think it's the only 3D app using CUDA so far, at least the only commercial app. I'm sure studios have implemented their own versions in their proprietary software. It is the way of the future in 3D apps, and Andrew Shpagin is brilliant for getting in on it early. Actually, he's brilliant, period.
Run it in OpenGL mode for maximum performance.

If however you have a weak graphics card, or an ATI card, you should probably use the DirectX version, which is still plenty powerful.

Anyhow, sorry for the OT, just wanted to say these things.
This has become a very informative thread and project, and I feel honored to be a part of it. :-)