A comment only Razor, and not trying to start an "my app is better than your app" argument. You know me better than that. For my part. 1. Nice render. I really like it. Although, what is that between his legs. looks like part of the armor is ... melting? Also, Love the lighting, but I can't tell what that is behind him. Sky or is something on fire?

Now to answer some of your questions. Truthfully, I don't really see anything that couldn't be accomplished in Poser 11 with Superfly or Cycles. As for the figure, well, I think you know that I'm probably into the Hivewire figures, Dusk and Dawn, so if I were going to begin a conversion, I'd probably go there. Mind you, now, realism isn't really my thing, so I'd probably lean more towards the Cycles shaders than any Superfly oriented ones. People really do forget that Superfly is really just a hybrid of Cycles and Firefly. For me, coming from a Blender perspective, Cycles is a little more direct and easier to get there for me.