You can still import genesis & genesis2 characters in to poser 11 and poser12 by using DSON importer and if you have DSON editor (both found at daz3d.com) you can set & conform the genesis(2) clothing and stuff before importing it over to poser. But it does not work for genesis3 or 8 . But you can do a conversion of genesis8 to genesis using riversoftarts conversions script found at daz3d.com . but you still need to use the dson importer to get genesis into poser its a lot of work. practically not worth the effort.

Daz Studio IMO is much easier to use. for animation . the UI is more user friendly. easier to move and edit things on the timeline . The animate2 timeline makes quick animations a snap. Iray and the iray render setting are straight forward. Its takes a lot of messing around to get Superfly to look at good as Iray . Though you can come very close. & Poser render is slow, lets face it its 3 to 5 times slower than Iray IMO

Poser 12 though has a number of features I would love to see in daz studio. 1 is being able to use mp4 Video footage as a background is huge. especially for mixing 3d characters in to real-ife video. daz studio requires everything be done like that in a video editor.

the second feature I really like in poserq12 is the bullet & soft-body physics which are not so easy to set up in poser & even harder to edit in the timeline . but at least poser has bullet physics that will work. daz studio do not even offer bullet physics. or Volumetric's so poser has that,

De-force has been a nice feature in daz studio. I use it a fair amount in animation. but it still does not match posers dynamic clothing room for dynamic clothing.and hair. yes it takes a heck of a lot of work to set up and to render but the results are worth it.

Poser has a straight forward IK/FK solution for the timeline editor allowing for individual key-frames to be edited one at a time for each of their keyframe values and how they interact with the Inverse kinetics with secondary props or ground. . The best daz has is a new IK-chain systems with a new timeline editor that still has some issues that need to be ironed out. . and its does not work for hard surfaces pinning. plus you have to manually add the ik-chains to the daz content your using in order to set up the ik-chains, where 90% of the poser content already has IK-chains included. that are ready to work with the poser timeline editor.

Daz Studio assets quality is much better than posers character mesh though the environments being offered by Rpublishing have been very impressive lately. so I am looking forward to seeing what elses come out. I love Alyson character. she sexy versatile and she can wear V4/S4 conforming clothing and hair pretty easy in poser 12. Lafeme not so much Lafemme needs more development IMO. I would like to see la-femme and la-homme offer more character morphs shape options to make them more versatile.

But gone are the day when poser & daz content cooperation was the norm. But at least you think Daz3d or renderosity could make a bridge to poser like they did for daz to blender and daz to unity daz to maya , daz to Ureal. etc. so we could use the genesis 8 characters in poser. at the best i would like to use some of Daz .DUF file format environments in poser. So who knows what the future holds.

This is a poser animation I just did with poser12 using Blackheart GND for Alyson2 and genesis male character. it took me 8 days to make this 1 minute film 3 days were used to render it in Superfly using a Panoramic dome background from cake and bob that came with one of their HDRi sets. at daz3d.com

Poser 12 Animation demo Girl on the beach from Ivy's art and animations on Vimeo.