With the rigging advanced features we have now and proper grouping, theres no good reason why you can't get a model to pose well, other than not wanting to learn the tools we already have available.

Without throwing anyone under the bus, it seems that the professional standard for "posing well" these days sometimes involves unnatural mesh distortions, particularly in the shoulder area. It would take the combined efforts of Snarly Gribbly and colorcurvature to produce a script that could help solve this with "3 dimensional JCMs." I hope that happens.

Of course Poser's rigging is basic at best so you can only do so much.

I'm still surprised on occasions by how the weightmapping behaves. I've been chipping away at this project off and on for the last two years without ever being satisfied with the results. Then I play with other Poser figures and realize that they have some of the same problems. 

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