Agent0013, I have followed your progress here with great interest. I have similar interests and I have some experience with Blender and DAZ Studio.

I would like your opinion on final render quality: At some future time I intend to make fully animated work in either DAZ or blender but both have plusses and minuses.

For example, rigging in Blender is tedious while DAZ already has the rigging done for you including speech morphs (something I would not want to struggle through creating in Blender). It would be nice to only do the shots you want in one program and then others in the other one but I am sure that lighting and texturing would not give a coherent result: so what do you suggest ?

Of course, I could be wrong about any of this too - there is just so much complexity and too much to learn !