I have not done many animations with Poser just a couple, and the main reason I have not gone in that direction is because of the time involved to render out even a short 500 frame animation. But the new P8 is really so much faster, I am sure because it is using all 4 cores. So even if there are no new tools just the vast improvement in rendering time is a big help in animation.

Life is hard, but what a ride.