ive been reading the thread with interest, i think the first question was stated purely matter of factly inviting an answer or opinion. I think it seems to boil down to the limitations of Poser as an animation program, just being devils advocate here, but the blurb on the SM site does state "Poser Pro 2012 is the fastest way for  professional artists and production teams to add pre-rigged and fully textured 3D  characters to their projects." In all honesty not the blurb you would expect from a hobby software program as someone mentioned.

Don't get me wrong , I'm happy with the way it performs mostly, because I haven't the skillset to use anything more advanced. Different strokes for different folks as usual, and in all fairness to the original poster, has  there really been  any advancement in the animation abilities since Poser 5?... hate mail to the usual PO address please :)

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