I recall I've had a Poser 1 demo or was it a video ? I was somewhat interested but not impressed at all. At the time I was doing 2D drawings for my games and was looking for a software to make animated sprites.
It is only with Poser 3 that I started to get hooked. I never did any sprite with Poser :)

Yarp - author of P3DO Organizer for Poser