To stop the poking through turn off the genitalia on the figure menu. As to the plastic look... sounds like your talking about rendering. If you move anything you have to re-render. There are diferent preview modes. Such as shaded, textured etc. They are listed on a tool bar called document style but none of these will look drop dead gorgeous like a rendered scene. Good luck

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