drewradley, I did do a comparison, but they use a lot of nomenclature to which I am not familiar - they call stuff something other that what its called in Poser, so I'm not sure what's what. I don't do any modelling or animation, just picture rendering, but given those parameters, I don't want to be missing out just because I didn't spend enough. And I don't want to commit myself to a large er learning curve for no reason.