The situation has changed a bit. I am now studying Carrara. This has a lot more potential as Daz + Bryce. I am amazed by this software. Wish I had looked more into it.

With Carrara it is lot "easier."

One other thing is, if you are in the animation stuff, the habit start of overdoing. Because we work with these tools, we see more as "normal" people. We want more because we can. Recently I saw a part of the Madagascar movie (in the zoo). Many of the backgrounds are very very simple images. I see this because I pay attention to this. "Others" don't see this.

That is why there has to be a way in the middle between simplicity and perfectionism. If you can't produce something because rendering takes weeks, while "normal" people don't see the difference with a lower render or images as background for instance, you are doing something wrong. Rendering doesn't have to be a problem.