Poser was originally a figure-focused tool to aid real-world painting projects. It evolved into today's version because of market conditions, technology developments, and consumer expectations. It has animation functions which primarily support dynamic hair and cloth simulations. It is not a full-blown animating software. It works best in near-range and not panoramic scenes. It is still mainly figure-focused. It does not do cel-shaded animations all that efficiently, if you take Japanese animation as the gold standard.

As for alternatives in price range, it may be arguable that the free Blender3D version 2.81 and forthcoming versions, are certainly more bang for the buck, including animating of large panoramas, celshaded scenes, and general whizz-bang.

So, for figure rendering - an optimised software is - ta-daaaa - Poser (and a couple of other figure-centric software, mentioning no names).

Eternal Hobbyist