Agreeing with Cage and BB and Laurie and... sheesh, pretty much everyone. 2012 blows everything else out of the water. I'll probably get slapped for saying this, but if you want to learn to do your own weightmapping or feel you want to use renderer gamma correction (I'm getting that "what-is-your-grandmother's-opinion-on-protoplasm?" look now, i can tell :biggrin:) then PP2012 is essential. If you feel you just want to use the features (consumer, not creator) then Poser 9 will do it for you. But don't discount the possibility of wanting to create your own: it comes on you when you least expect it.

Go with the best: you won't be kicking yourself later.

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks