As far as 3D graphics packages go, Poser is one of the easiest I've worked with so far. It's interface isn't all that alien if you go back and look at the other programs that were part of the Metacreations family before they sent their children to the orphanage to maximize their profitability. If you learn Poser you'll have a big jump at learning Bryce and Carrara, whose interfaces have an errie familiarity about them. If you take the time to do the tutorials in the Poser Manual it will go a long ways to your getting a grip on the program without spending hours and hours reading. My personal Poser bug-a-boo are the lights. I was hoping that Poser 5 would implement a positive change in this direction, but it doesn't look like it will. What's missing? Point lighting, you know the kind that you can put in a lamp or other models and make them look like they are emitting light. That having been said, if you were looking for a 3D MODELING program, you bought the wrong one. Poser has a limited set of primitives that you can make some props out of with some imagination, but they are apt to look like something you created with legos rather than real world objects.