You could ask Nerd if he wants a joint venture, where you could work with him on this or other items. If you could go through the steps of:

• properly mapping a one-sided plane that had a good polygon count
• resizing, bending it about 75 degrees in the x-axis within some limits of the bending point, and rotating it back to a good orientation, using a 3D modeller
• exporting to Poser while retaining the texture and edge sharpness
• creating a Poser light set that illuminates the curved surface without destroying the illusion of a continuous scene

you might be a good associate for Nerd. One possible problem with the concept is that the curved surface may require special lighting conditions in Poser that are likely to differ drastically from any sunlit or studio photograph used to texture the curved surface. The result may be that the lighting on the figure will rarely resemble the lighting in the photographic backdrop.