I'm kinda with Rokket here - particularly if you lack financial resources. Trust in the core strength of your ideas or narrative (if you can't, focus on making that aspect stronger). Work with the limitations of the app & explore different stylistic approaches to abstracting materials & lighting for faster, different looking renders.

Poser is as valid and effective a tool as a stick of charcoal for getting an idea across (I've seen plenty of charcoal drawings that have rocked my world).

If your narritive absolutely relies on a more realistic aesthetic, you'll have those problems that require different levels of resoursefulness. But I think it's a useful question to ask, how perfect (or realistic) your work needs to be.

We tend to want what are considered 'the best tools for the job' - but the best tools right now are always the ones you actually have access to (financially or otherwise).

 

PoserPro2014(Sr4), Win7 x64, display units set to inches.

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