Quote - I'm also curious about the smoothness of Curious George's image from the $10k printer... as smoothing is applied in the render, would this just be achieved by a very high polygon count?

  I would think that what you see in a modeler program is what you get.  So, smoothness would rely on poly count.

Hair would be an issue if using a Poser dollie;  the layers of transmapped rectangles without thickness wouldn't work.  I would guess that one would want to replace the Poser hair with a mesh facsimile.

I wonder if the 3D "printer" requires the polys to be/avoid triangles? quads? planar n-gons?

Poser 12, in feet.  

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