Quote - My posting were in response of Kobaltkween. Although I would love to see a Blender Fusion plugin as well, the more possibilities, the better.

Is Cycles fast enough for animations? Is the material system good enough for more than plastic, glass and metal, is there a good skin shader?

 

As to your animation question, I really don't know. As to Blender's material system, it's very powerful. You can do all sorts that look real if you know how. I'm not sure if Blender's native material editor will work with Cycles at this point or if it's more like Luxrender where you have to make a shader FOR Luxrender. Perhaps someone that knows can answer that ;). Andrew Price at Blender Guru just did a video on Cycles if you'd like to take a look. Those doughnuts look good enough to eat...lol.

edit: Materials do have to be made just for Cycles.

 

Laurie