Heh. I still have Poser 4 somewhere. I wonder if I can install it. If you're trying to render a long animation on a single computer, I could see the appeal. Except I seem to recall it crashed frequently, so I always rendered animations as a series of stills, so if it crashed, I could just start where it left off.

I have noticed that "old-fashioned" style animation seems to be popular. Like the Star Wars trailer the OP mentioned. The characters look like they escaped the 1990s, though the smoke and FX are way better than anything Poser 4 could do. A lot of people love Mitchells vs the Machines, which is 3D designed to look hand-drawn.