If you're enjoying Poser surely, that's worth 10k. There's a lot of talk on this subject, what you can do with this program or with that program. Poser's only let down by it's renderer, it just doesn't do what the 'high end' apps do but there are work arounds, but for character work, animation or straight posing then it has no equal. You'll find references here to radiosity lighting, or to mirrored reflections, joint controlled morphs and so on. These are all techniques the community have developed during our long wait for Poser 5, you're a part of that community now and that's worth far more than what fell out of your Poser box when you opened it. Now, you lucky person, you're about to witness Poser 5's birth and from what we've seen, nothing but nothing is going to equal it. Go now and prepare for it's arrival...