Thanks hborre, I'll make note of your suggested settings. I don't know if I can accurately answer your question until I've had a chance to speak with my team leader, and he has unfortunately been unavailable the past week, but I will be in touch with him soon and get a more accurate answer for you. If possible I'd like to have him jump into the thread here to clarify the process better than I can.

That said, what I do know is that I will be animating the characters without anything else in the scene, and then I'll be forwarding those rendered images to him. To the best of my knowledge he will then edit or touch up the images if necessary, and place them in the actual scenes in Truespace 3D program.  The entire movie is going to take place indoors in a kid's room, so no outdoor scenes.  So, in a nutshell, we are basically utilizing poser mostly for creating and animating the characters, the rest will be assembled and finalized in another 3D app.

I am a bit concerned about poser not supporting alpha masking, but I don't know enough about that to determine how important that will be, and how not having it will affect the workflow.

Btw, is there a way to actually save all the Poser_Surface settings to the materials library for quick loading so I don't have to change them all manually for all the kids clothing?