"This takes a ridiculous amount of time"

Exactly so.

As usual moriador is right to the point. I believe most things are possible in Poser if you are willing to give it the tine. But this is not practical in the real world. Most Poser users use an insane amount of time on the render, time which I am not willing to give. And if you are saying that experience will shorten the trial time look at bagginsbill, no one uses as much time on his renderings as him. And you can hardly say that he is inexperienced. ;)