Jules53757 posted at 5:29PM Sun, 27 March 2016 - #4262716

Render the figures in their Pose one by one and then put them on planes in any graphics app (Gimp, PS ...) cut them out and make the plane transparent

Transparency map

Put the planes in the Scene and render, it renders very quick

This render with 24 V4 took only seconds.

Thanks, that's how I'd do a standing crowd, but what I'm trying to depict is a tangled heap of dead extraterrestrials